The Road to Wisdom
The road to wisdom? -- Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.
Piet Hein (1905 – 1996)
I ran across this poem in a recent book by Scott Rosenberg called Dreaming in Code. Pretty good book. It's about software development, but it's very accessible to non-programmers.