Work

POINT:
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. - Thomas Alva Edison [Harper's Monthly, 1932]

COUNTERPOINT:
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. [...] I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. - Nikola Tesla [New York Times, October 19, 1931]