Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla as quoted in A Visit to Nikola Tesla by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927)
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.Nikola Tesla, as quoted in The New York Times (19 October 1931)
