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If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Edwin Catmull

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Edwin Catmull
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 31
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Executive Producer
Film Director
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Edwin Earl Catmull
Edwin E. Catmull
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Driven
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Failure
Mistake
Desire
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