[ Suggesting “hello” as a standard telephone greeting :] I do not think we shall need a call bell as Hello! can be heard 10 to 20 feet away.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven’t.

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

A genius is just a talented person who does his homework. Thomas A.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. Thomas A.

All Bibles are man-made. Thomas A.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thomas A.

I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures.