John W. Holt- what do you say? Ed?

“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.”

“If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.”

The true test of caliber is not what one does with success, but rather with failure.

Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar says that failure is necessary in an interview with the Chronicle

"But visible problems are a good sign in Catmull's world, where failure is a necessary option. That may be the most important Ed-ism of all. It's better to fix errors than prevent them. A larger staff won't change that philosophy. A new owner won't change it. And success certainly won't change it.

"It's so easy to go to a conservative place. You know something that works, and you don't want to change," Catmull says. "We're always going to have something that is a little chaotic and messy. ... As a company we're just trying to allow unpredictable things to happen.""