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

— Thomas Edison

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 1932, p. 24.
1900s
Variant: There ain´t no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something.

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