[tacticalogic]

So workers are just a bunch of lackeys in your eyes. Edison creating the incandescent light bulb is one thing. Creating the generators, coated wire companies and General Electric and then selling to the city of New York and its residents to cast aside their efficient gas lamps in favor of wires hanging down their walls was quite another story of Edison.

Edison had a brilliant mind, but I think may not have been very careful about some of his business partners.

He did make his share of mistakes, and I don't think he'd want us to ignore them. He seemed to consider his failures just as valuable as his successes because he learned something from them all. One of his biggest mistakes, IMHO, was failing to listen to Tesla, and persisting in the idea of trying to use DC over long distances.

[Doctor Doom]

That and stealing the whole motion picture idea from that French guy.

[Zon]

He seemed to consider his failures just as valuable as his successes because he learned something from them all.

I agree. His mistake do not in rise over his successes. The way some people would chose to be disproportionate in addressing another person's track record is wrong. Whether it's Edison being put down more than praised or Lincoln being praised more than put down, it is an error. If the person fails to correct his or her error and persists, it then becomes dishonest. Every person makes mistakes. Honesty demands the person correct them, learn in the process and move on.