• Ideas Of Other People

  Contributed by Samuel Wilder on Nov 10, 2008 (message contributor)

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IDEAS OF OTHER PEOPLE

Thomas A. Edison, the great inventor, was talking one day with the governor of North Carolina, and the governor complimented him on his inventive genius. "I am not a great inventor," said Edison.

"But you have over a thousand patents to your credit, haven’t you?" asked the governor.

"Yes, but about the only invention I can really claim as absolutely original is the phonograph," was the reply.

"Why, I’m afraid I don’t understand what you mean," said the governor.

"Well," explained Edison, "I guess I’m an awfully good sponge. I absorb ideas from every source I can, and put them to practical use. Then I improve them until they become of some value. The ideas which I use are mostly the ideas of other people who don’t develop them themselves."