I knew it would happen!

We hear this so very often in out lives. Every time we encounter failure there are ample number of people who come up and live up to the expectation of saying "I knew it would fail!". An interesting way to look at this failure comment is to assume that the idea failed even before the release. To get people to say why they thought it failed. It might lead to exposure of some serious flaws and give ample time to fix it in a rational, well thought of manner. A better bet at success or an increase in all round pessimism? I would say the former. After all, we hire testers and the best one better be pessimistic!