After yesterday's blog on experience and expertise, one of my colleagues sent me these lines from Lady Windermere's Fan, by Oscar Wilde.
Lord Darlington: You always amuse me, Cecil. You talk as if you were a man of experience.
Cecil Graham: I am
Lord Darlington: You are far too young!
Cecil Graham: That is a great error. Experience is a question of instinct about life. I have got it. Tuppy hasn’t. Experience is the name Tuppy gives to his mistakes. That is all.
Dumby: Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.