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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
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