Edison is quoted in Millard (1990) as having said: “The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.”

I thought this was particularly appropriate given our discussion yesterday about IRB and getting rapid turn around on protocols. How would Edison fare if he had to deal with IRB? How can we get students (esp my own) to embrace this idea of rapid experimentation, rapid iteration?

Millard, (1990). Edison and The Business of Innovation, p. 40.

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