Richard Buckminster Fuller on mistakes

"I think you should be more explicit here in step two." by Sidney Harris (2007)

"I think you should be more explicit here in step two."
Cartoon by Sidney Harris (2007)
Image credit: Science Cartoons Plus

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
Richard Buckminster Fuller in Critical Path, (Macmillan, 1982), p. 151. Originally published (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981).

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"By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes"
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