You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
—Albert Einstein
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
—Unknown
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
—George Carlin
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
—James Thurber
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
—Dave Barry