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OK, I'm inserting some POV and inflammatory material to get toned down by those who care about this subject, because those people deserve to get rudely hit with this stuff every couple of weeks or so. |
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:I have the right principle and am on the right track, but time, hard work and some good luck are necessary too. It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise -- this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs" -- as such little faults and difficulties are called -- show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached.
While obviously Edison was not talking about a computer at the time (he was writing about [[electric lighting]]), his description of them is still mostly consistent with the current usage of the term. Moreover, the word ''
''Source:'' Edison to Puskas, 13 November 1878, Edison papers, Edison National Laboratory, U.S. National Park Service, West Orange, N.J., cited in Thomas P. Hughes, ''American Genesis: A History of the American Genius for Invention,'' Penguin Books, 1989, on page 75. </small>
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