How Many Mistakes Did Andrew Roberts Make?

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A lot of that data is preserved for effort. It's still going to be there 20 years from now when somebody goes in and looks at one of these systems. I'm going to come back to Churchill for a second because one of the themes of Andrew Roberts was how many mistakes he made, how many failures he had. But you know, it's not obvious you should learn from your mistakes, but you shouldn't take them to heart.

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