But the concept of serendipity can be broadened. A mistaken project does not always lead to something correct: often […] a…

“But the concept of serendipity can be broadened. A mistaken project does not always lead to something correct: often […] a project that the author believed right seems to us unrealizable, but for this reason we understand why something else was right.”

–Umberto Eco,Serendipities: Language and Lunacy Phoenix, 2000. (viadesigningserendipity)