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

— Thomas Edison

As quoted in Artifacts : An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley (2001) by Christine Finn. p. 90.
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American inventor and businessman 1847–1931

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