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#83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

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Edison Is Telling Us With His Actions What to Do

Thomas Edison said that any system depending on incandescence light will fail. John Sutter: It's best for you to just ignore it if there is some element of truth, but is that true? He says the difference between these two kinds of people is the difference between the pig and the chicken in the ham and eggs breakfast. If you're going to do anything worth doing, you need a lot of pigs or chickens.

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