“Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to acc…”

“Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!”

— Thomas Edison

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Title: Wikiquote: Thomas Edison
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Response received (after Edison spat on the floor and before he walked off) when M. A. Rosanoff joined the West Orange, New Jersey team in 1903 and humbly asked: “Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe.” M. A. Rosanoff’s quote appeared in Harper’s Monthly, September

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Edison, Thomas. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Thomas Edison. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

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