“To live in civilization, you’ve got to take risks. There will be mistakes. You can’t succeed by just always being perfect. People have to learn from their mistakes. We wouldn’t have made the discoveries we have, live with the world of plastics we’ve got—car steering wheels, computers, the telephone wires I deal with—a lot of that’s plastic. We wouldn’t have built this country if we were all as risk-averse as you are. Do we want to go back to life in shacks reading by kerosene? Accidents happen. They used to spill kerosene. So what? Do you wish they hadn’t ever used that?”
