A Mistake Is A Future

There's A Tremendous Popular Fallacy Which Holds That Significant Research Can Be Carried Out By Trying Things. Actually It Is Easy To Show That In General No Significant Problem Can Be Solved Empirically, Except For Accidents So Rare As To Be Statistically Unimportant. One Of My Jests Is To Say That We Work Empirically -- We Use Bull's Eye Empiricism. We Try Everything, But We Try The Right Thing First!

We Took On Things Which People Might Think Would Take A Year Or Two. They Weren't Particularly Hard. What Was Hard Was Believing They Weren't Hard.

In A Few Wretched Buildings, We Created A Whole New Industry With International Significance.

I Have Long Aspired To Make Our Company A Noble Prototype Of Industry, Penetrating In Science, Reliable In Engineering, Creative In Aesthetics And Wholesomely Prosperous In Economics.

A Mistake Is A Future Benefit, The Full Value Of Which Is Yet To Be Realized.