Experience is what you get when you donβt get what you want.
I'm not sure if it was originally said by Dan Stanford or Randy Pausch.
I do know that good judgment comes from experience but experience often comes from bad judgment.
By the way, if you haven't watched or read Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, you really should.
Read the transcript (pdf) or watch it on YouTube.
Yeah that's a great one.
Agreed. Another great variation on that theme is Steve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford in 2005.
Agreed on both!
Steve Jobs' commencement speech is worth watching again and again.