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We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.