“My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.”
— Nikola Tesla as transcribed by Arthur H. Matthews, The Wall of Light : Nikola Tesla and the Venusian Space Ship, the - X-12
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