Ever wonder why Elon Musk named his company Tesla?  Here is one of the reasons why Nikola Tesla is so renowned, he predicted the smart phone.  “When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.” ~Nikola Tesla

The video below gives people a glimpse into Nikola Tesla.
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Here is what Nikola Tesla thought about Thomas Edison:
“His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor’s instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.” ~Nikola Tesla

Quotes on Innovation and Technology

Genius Quotes

• “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” ~Thomas Edison
• “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” ~Albert Einstein
• “True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.” ~Winston Churchill
• “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”  ~Stephen Hawking
• “In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.” ~Nikola Tesla
• “Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they’re the center of everything ends up shrinking.” ~Neil deGrasse Tyson
• “We’re all a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ~Albert Einstein
• “Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.” ~Nikola Tesla
• “The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.” ~Stephen Hawking