Friday, July 13, 2012

"Success is success but that is all that it is"

From the New York Times review of Henry Petroski's book "To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure":

People who study the ecology of innovation say one of our biggest advantages may be our willingness to accept failure, however distressing, as an inevitable byproduct of ambition. In the United States, if some unanticipated factor causes your good idea to fail, relatively little stigma attaches to you. In fact, you will hear people in Silicon Valley say that if you have not gone bankrupt at least once or twice, you’re not trying hard enough.

“Success is success but that is all that it is,” Dr. Petroski writes. It is failure that brings improvement.

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