Friday, July 30, 2010 at 3:46PM OnBiz QUOTE: Failure forces you to face reality.
The role of failure in ultimate success.
"You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you’re forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality." --Fred Barnes, computer scientist, IT pioneer, University of North Carolina professor, author.
On what the paramount design factor is.
"The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you’re optimizing."
How to approach innovation.
"Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, once said that his method of design was to start with a vision of what you want and then, one by one, remove the technical obstacles until you have it. I think that’s what Steve Jobs does. He starts with a vision rather than a list of features."
The man behind the quotes:
Fred Barnes is a classic authority in the IT business--35 years ago he wrote a book, The Mythical Man-Month, which he named after the flawed assumption that more manpower meant predictably faster progress in project completion; this book still sells over 10,000 copies a year! He's just written another book, The Design of Design.
From: “Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything,” by Kevin Kelley, WIRED, August 2010.
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