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Failure Failing Toward Success: The Ascendance Of Agile Design

By Elizabeth Merritt

“If you’re creating things, you’re doing things that have a high potential for failure, especially if you’re doing things that haven’t been done before. And you learn from those things…failure is another word for experience.”George Lucas …

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