You don’t want to be Tesla. He was one of the greatest inventors,
but it’s a sad, sad story. He couldn’t commercialise anything, he
could barely fund his own research. You’d want to be more like
Edison. If you invent something, that doesn’t necessarily help
anybody. You’ve got to actually get it into the world; you’ve got
to produce, make money doing it so you can fund it.
Google’s Larry Page
from the list of quotes gathered by Paul Graham
(via fascinated)
This is true, but it is a shame Edison is praised so much, considering how much of other people’s work is credited to him. The opposite is true of Tesla - who invested radio while credit goes to Marconi.
