You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you’re forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality. | |
— Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. | |
Quoted in the article: “Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything“ | |
Written by: Kevin Kelly in Wired Magazine, August 2010 | |
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