Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
ideas execution hallucinations
Ideas without execution are hallucinations.
motivational creating goes-on
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions....
I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
good-intentions poor results
A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
new-york light years
It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use.
impact focus innovation
Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
innovation competition way
Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
data prejudice
Consider data without prejudice.
crazy civilization trying
The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
people trying needs
I try not to invent things that people don't need.
light vivid-imagination firsts
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
taken discovery medicine
Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.
unreliability danger tension
I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
lying giving soul
The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead.