Sunday, February 3, 2008

James Dyson: A genius or a bee?

Why is James Dyson proudly advertising that it took over 5000 prototypes to get the design of his vacuum cleaners right? One of the greatest geniuses of the modern era, Nikola Tesla once said of Thomas Edison "If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor."

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