Subject: Not Failure (YAK?)

From: Dan Nibbelink <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:09:18 -0700

Rusty wrote:
>And finally (atlast), Duane, don't give up thinking, dreaming,and trying.  If the solar forge works,fine.  If it doesn't,
the experiment is not a failure.  I used to tell my students,
"No experiment is ever a failure.  It just says you can't do
it the way you tried."

Thomas Edison, when asked by the brash cub reporter "How does it feel to 
have failed 5000 times to to find a usable filament for your light bulb?" 
replied "I have successfully discovered 5000 substances which will not 
work." (It took him another 5000 tries to get it to work.)

-- 
Dan Nibbelink
RedHawk Forge
Berthoud, Colorado
[email-masked]
http://www.csn.net/~dannibb