"Disruptive Innovation"
Alan Kay recently outlined some of the principles that he thought made Xerox's PARC so successful (if you don't know who Alan Kay is or why PARC was so special, you should try to find out). One was: "'It's baseball,' not 'golf'...Not getting a hit is not failure but the overhead for getting hits."
That doesn't quite square with my impression of golf, but I take the point. It's about the price of success.
That doesn't quite square with my impression of golf, but I take the point. It's about the price of success.
As psychologist Dean Simonton pointed out in Origins of Genius: "The more successes there are, the more failures there are as well." "Quality," he wrote, "is a probabilistic function of quantity."
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Posted by blogger Kim Bellard
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