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There's a saying in the racing business. If you're not walking back to the pit now and then carrying the steering wheel, you're not trying hard enough. If you'r

There's a saying in the racing business. If you're not walking back to the pit now and then carrying the steering wheel, you're not trying hard enough. If you're walking back to the pit too often, you're incompetent.

bombcar 7mo ago
If you always fail, you aren’t trying. If you never fail, you aren’t trying.
- mandeepj 7mo ago
  If you always fail, you aren’t learning Isn't that better?
  - bombcar 7mo ago
    True, but then you have to differentiate trying and failing vs not doing anything and failing by default.
WalterBright 7mo ago
There's another aspect. If you're launching men in rockets, you cannot tolerate failures, so the development cost is way, way higher. The cost effective method is to launch unmanned ones, tolerating a lot of failures, and when the bugs are worked out then launch men.