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Created on: July 10, 2011
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." - Thomas Edison.
Edison, that big know-it-all,
Thought his intellect was small;
Having invented the phonograph,
He shrugged it off with just a laugh:
“Our minds are 78, said he,
While God’s is a 33.”
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Poetry: Inventors
by Paul Erland
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." - Thomas Edison.
Edison, that big know-it-all,
Thought
FUELING THE FUTURE
Two weeks' notice; we're risk-takers,
Soon to be decision-makers.
Res igning with impunity
To build our opportunity.
Inventi ons
An inventor
of what?
He's never finishes anything...
Crazy, lazy
"get a real job"
some folks say...
But, if he's successful
he's
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tinkering around
with gadgets and machines
trying to reveal
what can't be seen
yearning to discover
things that are yet hid
maybe
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