Russell McMahon wrote:
> Power too cheap to meter ...
>
>           Edison.
>
> :-)

---
"It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes
electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional
famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly
over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger
and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours as
disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age."

Lewis L. Strauss
Speech to the National Association of Science Writers, New York City
September 16th, 1954.

As happens in the child's game of telephone, as the above statement got
digested and passed along, it morphed and took on a new wording. The common
understanding is that Lewis Strauss said that nuclear power would be "too
cheap to meter". In the fifty years since that rather obscure speech, the
morphed sound (and print) bite has been used hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
times to damn nuclear technologists as either poor prognosticators or as
liars bent on deceiving the American public.
---

http://www.atomicinsights.com/AI_03-09-05.html 

-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist