Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor (slightly modified)

 

The core skill of innovators is error-recovery, not failure-avoidance.

Randy Nelson, dean of Pixar University, on a lesson from NASA’s hiring practices for the Apollo program — look for test pilots that failed and were able to recover, not pilots who never made a mistake — in Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age: A New Model for the Workplace (video, quote at ~3 minutes)