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“They didn’t even have pockets in 1615?”
― Stuart Gibbs, The Last Musketeer

“Three boys against a heavily fortified prison. Aramis was secretly relieved not to be in on the attack—though his relief was tempered by guilt that he wasn’t involved.”
― Stuart Gibbs, The Last Musketeer

“Musk asked me to dinner to negotiate. Eighteen months earlier, I’d informed him of my plans to write a book about him. He’d informed me of his plans not to cooperate and do interviews for the book.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Readers' Edition

“The car’s task is to stay centered between the stripes. Generally, it does a good job of this. Too good, at times—such as when passing a giant semi that’s riding the lane stripe. The car’s radar senses the semi, and the car draws a conclusion along the line of: “There’s something big to my right, but I’ve got seven inches of clearance, so I’m OK.” Meanwhile, the human driver is freaking out.”
― Pati Nagle, The Tesla Diaries: Adventures in Owning an Electric Car

“For the first two or three months we had Nikola, my spouse tracked our electricity costs plus gasoline costs for the Camry, and compared them to our electricity and gas costs for the same months of the previous year. He gave up after three months. We were saving over $100 a month on those combined costs, and that was with quite a lot of jaunting about in the Tesla.”
― Pati Nagle, The Tesla Diaries: Adventures in Owning an Electric Car

“Now, all of this happened without Autopilot, because we had decided against buying it when we were designing the car. We apparently weren’t alone in that, because in May, we got a message from Tesla offering us a one-month free trial of Autopilot. Want to taste the Koolaid? The first cup is free...”
― Pati Nagle, The Tesla Diaries: Adventures in Owning an Electric Car

“Keeping our lovely Camry going was costing us about $1500/year in maintenance and another $1000 in fuel costs. So that’s about $2500 per year in additional cost. By 2015, the Camry we’d paid $28k for had now cost us $33k. (We still own it today, though we’re driving it a lot less. In 2018, the total cost is up to about $40k, close to half the cost of our dream Model S.)”
― Pati Nagle, The Tesla Diaries: Adventures in Owning an Electric Car

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way” (Jones, 2014).”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“But not until I had attained manhood did I realize that I was an inventor.” ~ N. Tesla”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“He was famous, respected, brilliant and broke. Tesla held more than 300 known patents, but was never able to convert his inventions into long-term financial success.”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“I do not think there is any thrill that can ago through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.” ~ N. Tesla”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” ~ N.Tesla”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“Everyone expected something great from Tesla, but this was an unexpected invention. The boat was equipped with “a borrowed mind” (Tesla, 2014). The boat moved around the water and red lights flashed on and off. The crowd thought Tesla was controlling the boat with his mind, but he was actually sending wireless signals to the mechanism using a hand-held control box and battery power.”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“His experiments and devices always came out how he imagined. Tesla said, “Twenty times I have imagined success and twenty times I have won that success.”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“It’s interesting to note that in 1901 Guglielmo Marconi, from his laboratory in England, used the Tesla’s coil system to transmit Morse code across the Atlantic. Everything Marconi did was based on Tesla’s work.”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“The conditions that surrounded this youth in the airy fastnesses of the Dinaric Alps all made against the hopes he nursed of becoming an electrician ; and not the least impediment was the fond wish of his parents at Siniljan Lika that he should maintain the priestly tradition, and benefit by the preferment likely to come through his uncle, now Metropolitan in Bosnia.”
― Nikola Tesla, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

“It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering – only expensive – blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.” ~ N. Tesla”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in  its growth by the succeeding frost.” ~ N. Tesla”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“He has yet to be adequately credited for his invention of radio, and Edison has always been thought of as the "father of electricity" and for “his” work in alternating current. Edison did not work with A/C. A/C was Tesla’s lifelong work.”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“But these animals did not take to flight so rapidly but what the electric capsule could stop their course.”
― Jules Verne, The Essential Jules Verne Collection (25 books) [Illustrated]

“But if my hand approached these living flowers, these animated, sensitive plants, the whole colony took alarm. The white petals re-entered their red cases, the flowers faded as I looked, and the bush changed into a block of stony knobs.”
― Jules Verne, The Essential Jules Verne Collection (25 books) [Illustrated]

“I had produced a striking phenomenon with my grounded transmitter and was endeavoring to ascertain its true significance in relation to the currents propagated through the earth.”
― Nikola Tesla, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla