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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.