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Be glad people don't take that attitude when building aircraft or bridges or medical scanners ;-)

• bchjam 15y ago
  I was always exposed to the Wright brothers as a successful example of the fail fast approach. Obviously the risk factors of "just shipping" are different to most software but my point is that they didn't get to success just by thinking about it. They built things that they expected to fail so that they could learn from them and iteratively made their way to flight.
  • JoachimSchipper 15y ago
    Iteration and hard work did help the Wright brothers, but so did building a wind tunnel and their knowledge of aerodynamics. "Just do it" is not enough.
    • bchjam 15y ago
      Agreed. It takes a balance of both (and to be honest it took me a long time to learn to appreciate the practical side). I suppose the one-liner was too vague to fully convey my meaning but it really was playing in my mind's ear.