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This is the Five Hundred Sixteen Thousand Five Hundred Eighty Second view since 02/07/97. Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
       --Louis L'Amour, [856/1855] In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.
       --Anonymous, [1763/1855] But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented. But Edison's greatest achievement came in 1879, when he invented the electric company. Edison's design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit: the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again.This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact the last year any new electricity was generated in the United States was 1937; the electric companies have been merely re-selling it ever since, which is why they have so much free time to apply for rate increases.
       --Dave Barry, What is Electricity? [135/1855] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
       --Anna Freud, [626/1855] Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really".
       --Dave Parnas, [1043/1855] These five quotes were chosen at random from my quote collection. To get five more quotes just reload this page. If you can attribute any of the quotes marked as anonymous feel free to email me. hi·a·tus \hi-'â-tes\ n [L. fr. hiare to yawn] 1 : a lapse in continuity : GAP Related Links: Search My Quote Collection OnHiatus.com > Quote Collection: