Tesla Quotes

• The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

  Edwin Howard Armstrong

  Science, Thinking, Long

  The Tesla Museum exhibition in Belgrade, and by the Tesla Memorial Society of New York, www.teslasociety.com.

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• Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.

  Elon Musk

  Zombie, Able, Apocalypse

  "Tesla Is Prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse". www.technologyreview.com. May 30, 2013.

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• I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.

  David Lynch

  Fans

  "The interview: David Lynch" by Gaby Wood and Hazel Sheffield, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• He (Tesla) was 84, and he died in a hotel, completely broke and alone. In love with a pigeon. This is a nightmare. I'm in hell. This is hell. I'm talking about Tesla in my puke. Tesla was the electric Jesus. I can't breathe.

  Duncan Trussell

  Jesus, Talking, Pigeons

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• When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

  Elon Musk

  Odds, Outcomes, Said

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• Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, which portrays Tesla as intensely human. . . . Anyone, whether simply an interested reader or a professional historian, engineer, or physicist, will finish Tesla with a deepened understanding of his world, character, and accomplishments.

  Robert Rosenberg

  Character, Accomplishment, Understanding

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• I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.

  Lana Del Rey

  Possibility, Anti Feminist, Happens

  "Cover Story: Lana Del Rey Is Anyone She Wants to Be" by Duncan Cooper, www.thefader.com. June 04, 2014.

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• I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing.

  George Clooney

  Cat, Firsts, Sides

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• Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Crush, Mean

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

  Vince Staples

  Men, Important, Doe

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Technology, Electric Vehicles

  "Exclusive Q & A with Elon Musk on the Tesla Roadster and the future of EVs". Interview with Sebastian Blanco, www.autoblog.com. July 26, 2006.

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• All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Appreciation, Congratulations, Men

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• Tesla burns cash. It's not a car company, it's a cult of fanatics who think Elon Musk can do no wrong. But financially, it doesn't work.

  Bob Lutz

  Thinking, Car, Cash

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• [Nikola Tesla and Leon Theremin] were European gentlemen, very well-mannered, all of the stuff you associate with living in Europe.

  Paul Laffoley

  Europe, Gentleman, Stuff

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Electric Vehicles, Goal

  "Elon Musk Gives Tesla's Patents to Open Source Movement". bigthink.com.

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• Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

  Eddie Trunk

  Kissing, Rocks, Iron

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• I think it was because [Nikola] Tesla and [Leon] Theremin were part of what made up the movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Klaatu was actually a European among the Americans. And so the person who wrote the story said that Klaatu came from Europa, the fourth moon of Jupiter, which is now being investigated for life. There's water and ice on it and that kind of stuff.

  Paul Laffoley

  Thinking, Moon, Ice

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Both [Nikola] Tesla and [Leon] Theremin were preternaturally young. I mean, for a long time Tesla was a young man well into his 70s. And so was Theremin, even though, at the end, he looked pretty old. But he was still doing things that young guys do, beyond the time you'd normally think people should be doing that stuff.

  Paul Laffoley

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two characters [Nikola Tesla and Leon Teremin] who were brought together. That made it fascinating to me. And especially the language they made up, that Klaatu speaks. Because it has a Latin word order. It's like medieval Latin, but it had some Navajo phonemes in it and that kind of stuff.

  Paul Laffoley

  Latin, Character, Order

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• [Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back, and then discover where it was wearing. You know, where the parts were wearing out. Now, that's inner visualization and a half! And that was the secret of why he did so many inventions.

  Paul Laffoley

  Dream, Secret, Half

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I think [Nikola Tesla] was always like that. And so it was inevitable that he would be an inventor. Because it was so easy for him to think fourth-dimensionally, dynamically. It wasn't just a static thing with him. In other words, it isn't the way an architect thinks, which is essentially static.

  Paul Laffoley

  Thinking, Way, Would Be

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• [Nikola Tesla] was thinking of parts actually moving, like exchanging positions in space through time. This would go over here, then that would go over there, and then something else would happen.

  Paul Laffoley

  Moving, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• [Nikola Tesla] said he had no interest in the spiritual. He didn't believe in telepathy, didn't believe in any of that stuff, didn't believe in any religion, and he just thought all these people were being superstitious and wanted them to go away. And in that way he was very close to H.P. Lovecraft, who was almost a believing atheist.

  Paul Laffoley

  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob, and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath. So he pulls an alternating-current taser on me and tells me that only the Official Serbian Church of Tesla can save my polyphase intrinsic electric field, known to non-engineers as "the soul." So I hit him. What would you do?

  Warren Ellis

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

  "Transmetropolitan. God Riding Shotgun (issue #6)". Comic book by Warren Ellis,

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• I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Europe, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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