Always have a backup plan.
And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.
In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.
I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.