Everything is failing all the time; it’s just a matter of how quickly and how devastatingly. In his 1964 book, The Nature of Design, industrial designer David Pye attempted to lay to rest the very notion of success: “Nothing we design or make ever really works. We can always say what it ought to do, but that it never does,” he wrote. “Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.”
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