There's a lot of truth in that; you almost always learn more from failure than from success. I remember watching CNN covering the return of a NASA spacecraft that had collected samples from the tail of a comet. The landing system failed, and the payload came crashing down, prompting CNN to call it an unmitigated disaster and complete failure, when anyone with even a passing knowledge of science and engineering knows that even a "complete failure" isn't a failure if you learn from it.
And, naturally, enough, the scientists and engineers not only learned from the failure, they actually learned from the samples that survived the reentry and crash.
Also, LOL at Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.
