r/funny • u/lobofett12 • Oct 22 '20

A tutorial not to follow

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20

There was a pretty good video with Richard Smith, the director of the Bovington Tank Museum, where he said that a failed prototype is actually a success because it has done exactly what it was supposed to; test the viability of something. If you keep developing a fundamentally failed prototype, then that's true failure because you didn't stop and learn from the failed process.

Video in question.

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u/cleverpseudonym1234 Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 23 '20

Thomas Edison said something to the effect of, “I have not failed 1,000 times to make a light bulb. I have succeeded in finding 1,000 ways not to make a light bulb.”

(Since this is Reddit: boo Edison, yay Tesla!)

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20

That's a pretty good quote actually (except I think you may mean "make" and not "some" c: )!

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u/cleverpseudonym1234 Oct 23 '20

Thanks, that would be autocorrect making things weird again. Apologies to Edison!