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Electricity Quotes

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

Thomas A. Edison's statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (December 31, 1879), as quoted in Chris J. Magoc "Chronology of Americans and the Environment" (p. 46), 2011.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

Melvil Dewey (1888). “Libraries as Related to the Educational Work of the State”

Without electricity, there can be no art.

"Nam June Paik retrospective, Liverpool" by Emma O'Kelly, December 20, 2010.

Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

"Radio Ads Still Relevant In Presidential Campaigns". "All Things Considered" with Brian Naylor, www.npr.org. October 23, 2012.

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.382

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

"Ken Auletta: "Digital is almost as disruptive to traditional media as electricity was to the candle business"". Interview with Maite Fernandez, ijnet.org. December 14, 2011.

Sparks fly, it's like electricity.

Song: Kissin' U, Album: Sparks Fly, 2010