A quote attributed to Alan Kay (though I'm sure many others have said it):
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Which, all things considered, is a bit of a relief.
If you're not making mistakes, you aren't trying hard enough.
I don't know anything more about him, except that he wrote 2 books called: Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun and Make It So : Leadership Lessons from Star Trek the Next Generation