Thomas Edison, every mention

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▶ 39:39 Shane Parrish Edison and Ford, both friends of Harvey, believed that inventors rarely benefited from patent laws.
▶ 1:10:25 Shane Parrish Beyond business success, Harvey became legendary for his friendships with Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.

▶ 24:06 Shane Parrish The trial and error approach of the Egyptians, on the other hand, had been pure Edison.
▶ 42:29 Shane Parrish This embrace of failure as a teaching tool rather than a dead end places Dyson in the tradition of Thomas Edison, who reportedly found 10,000 ways not to make the light bulb before finding one that worked. 2 times in the scene

▶ 8:26 Shane Parrish Eaton brought the same intensity to retail that Edison brought to invention.

▶ 7:19 Dr. Gio Valiante It's, it's what, it's what, um, um, Thomas Edison said, you know, when asked, Hey, you know, what was it like to fail a thousand times? 2 times in the scene
▶ 30:29 Dr. Gio Valiante They react to failure like Thomas Edison with more curiosity.

▶ 13:57 Matt Ridley But if you, you know, if you look at the careers of people like Thomas Edison or Jeff Bezos, uh, or talk to any great innovators today, they all emphasize the importance of trial and error, failure of getting things wrong and starting…
▶ 19:18 Matt Ridley Thomas Edison said, I haven't 2 times in the scene
▶ 22:26 Matt Ridley You rerun the tape without Sergey Brin meeting Larry Page, without Thomas Edison, and you still get light bulbs, you still get search engines.
▶ 27:02 Matt Ridley I've already talked about Thomas Edison, but actually the innovators still working on a technology like that are just as important.

▶ 42:15 Derek Sivers You know, the old classic example of Edison with the light bulb filament.

▶ 30:40 Bethany McLean Because a lot of visionaries from Thomas Edison through have

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