» technology http://leonardo-web.org/quotations Quotations that stimulate action Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:34:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The challenge of innovation http://leonardo-web.org/quotations/2008/03/21/the-challenge-of-innovation/ http://leonardo-web.org/quotations/2008/03/21/the-challenge-of-innovation/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:00:58 +0000 Hans De Keulenaer http://leonardo-web.org/quotations/2008/03/21/the-challenge-of-innovation/

… good enough for our transatlantic friends… but unworthy of practical or scientific men.

Report of a committee of the British Parliament on the idea of an incandescent lamp, 1878

]]> http://leonardo-web.org/quotations/2008/03/21/the-challenge-of-innovation/feed/ 0 Abundant electricity http://leonardo-web.org/quotations/2008/02/06/abundant-electricity/ http://leonardo-web.org/quotations/2008/02/06/abundant-electricity/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:00:05 +0000 Hans De Keulenaer http://leonardo-web.org/quotations/2008/02/06/abundant-electricity/

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

Nicola Tesla

]]> http://leonardo-web.org/quotations/2008/02/06/abundant-electricity/feed/ 1 The track record of forecasting http://leonardo-web.org/quotations/2008/01/29/the-track-record-of-forecasting/ http://leonardo-web.org/quotations/2008/01/29/the-track-record-of-forecasting/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:00:05 +0000 Hans De Keulenaer http://leonardo-web.org/quotations/2008/01/29/the-track-record-of-forecasting/

… I do not think there is the slightest chance of its [electricity] competing, in a general way, with gas. There are defects about the electric light which, unless some essential changes take place, must entirely prevent its application to ordinary lighting purposes.

Select Committee on Lighting by Electricity, British House of Commons, 1879

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