I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
— Thomas Edison, A Photographic Talk with Edison (1898)
Quoted by Theodore Dreiser in a February 1898 Success magazine article.
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