"The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work."
-Charles Kettering
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"A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.“
-Charles Kettering
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