On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:22:38 -0800, "Brett A. Thomas"
wrote:

mac davis wrote:
"experience is the ability to recognize your mistakes when you repeat
them"

I'm partial to "experience is what you get when you don't get what you
want." Which allows you to say things like, "Well, that was great
experience..."

-BAT

one I heard today:

A smart person learns from his mistakes; a brilliant person learns from
other peoples' mistakes.


So, you helped make a bunch of other people into geniuses with your post.
:-)