Your understanding of what I said is also clearly ridiculous. In context, what I am saying is pretty obviously meant to be taken as: Failure is part of taking

Your understanding of what I said is also clearly ridiculous. In context, what I am saying is pretty obviously meant to be taken as: Failure is part of taking risk. Risk is part of doing things that are difficult. Doing things that are difficult is part of progress. Progress is something that I consider "right". And then put further into context, with regards to spectacular failures like the one today: Don't beat yourself up [engineers who worked on orbital] because the very difficult thing that you were doing failed. That is what makes that very difficult thing noteworthy.