On Jun 18, 11:55*am, Frogwatch wrote:
On Jun 18, 10:55*am, Loogypicker wrote:





On Jun 18, 10:09*am, HK wrote:

Go back to inventing stuff that won't sell. You've not got a future as a
commentator.

Poor dumb Harry. He knows nothing about inventing or being technically
creative

Thomas A. Edison:

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always
America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave
as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't
mean it's useless.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where
it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the
place to become discouraged

And Henry Ford. Harry, pay special attention to the first one!

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a
worthwhile achievement.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more
intelligently.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is
and what is not possible.

Good thing these people didn't think like Harry!

Failure can be very profitable too so whenever something does not work
remember it and WHY. *Then use that as the basis for something else.
A personal example that Eisboch will probable be familar with.
We once wanted to make a conductive coating that was very shiny and we
would then electroplate gold onto it and then peel of the resulting
gold foil. *We electron beam evaporated chromium onto glass because
this made a beautiful surface. *Then we electroplated the gold onto
that expecting the gold to peel off, WRONG. *It turns out that Chrome
is used as an adhesion layer for gold.
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Oh, absolutely! A lot of Edison's inventions were mistakes. He was
trying to get a completely different result, failed, and then the
failure did something unexpected.