Accounts Quote by Thomas A. Edison

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could…

— Thomas A. Edison

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

— Douglas Coupland

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability…

— Richard Burr

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

— Alexander Hamilton

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

— Richard Branson

Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

— Dan Flavin

I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.

— Kate Spade

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

— George Carlin

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

— Richard Neal

When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense…

— Edward Snowden

Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.

— Nikola Tesla

During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When…

— Damon Knight