The inimitable Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in Back to the Future
I am absolutely fascinated by technology—every time I revel in the fact that I’ve learned something, I find that there is something far more interesting to learn.
I’m frequently soldering or connecting different pieces together to [fill in the blank here]. I’ve created, copied, or modified dozens of circuits, but as quickly as I build something, the next generation is available.
Thomas Edison found “a thousand ways NOT to make a lightbulb”, before he found the correct way.
Doc Brown, from Back to the Future, declared with delight that, “I finally invented something that works!”
It’s really the same—so I may be an Edison, or I may be a Doc Brown. It doesn’t matter—I’ll continue to experiment and attempt to learn. Who knows; in the process, I just might invent something that works!
