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Re: Trial and error

Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

" Too much time? 20 minutes? I'm reminded what Tesla said
about Edison's approach to design: something to the effect that he
..."proceded to diligently search for a needle in a haystack when a
little thought and calculation would have saved him 90% of his
labour..." or something pretty close to it. "

	Note that Edison put in the time and almost never gave up, so in the
end he was usually successful.  Tesla had much better intuition but
didn't always succeed either.

Ed