26Medieval Misjudgment: De Bohun's Duel
Henry de Bohun was a brave knight who thought he could kill Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) on the open field because the King of Scots was armed only with an axe. Robert later regretted the incident because he broke his favorite axe, splitting Henry's head.
27. Jack Valenti, the President of the MPAA, regretted giving South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut an R rating, wishing to have labeled it with the NC-17 rating.
28. The inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, has one regret: adding the double slash // to URLs. In retrospect, he says it was totally unnecessary.
29. The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during World War II returned years later to present his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret.
30. During the filming of Taxi Driver, Robert De Niro asked Cybill Shepherd out on a date. She turned him down, and he did not speak to her, except in character, for the rest of the filming. She later said that she regretted turning him down.
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31Coolio's "Amish Paradise" Misjudgment
Coolio regretted giving Weird Al a hard time about "Amish Paradise" and feels "that was one of the dumbest things I did in my career."
32. Peter Benchley regretted writing JAWS. Later in life, he became an ocean activist and wrote books advocating shark conservation.
33. Oliver Sipple, who rescued then-President Gerald Ford from an assassin, later regretted saving the president after the press outed him as gay, his family rejected him, and he ultimately passed away.
34. Beck rejected Weird Al's request to parody his hit 1990s song "Loser" because Beck felt he already wasn't being taken seriously as an artist. Later, though, Beck regretted this decision, saying, "I think it would have been an amazing video. I'm actually really sad it didn't happen."
35. Bill Burr, the author of an influential guide to computer passwords, the NIST manual on passwords, that recommended password changes every 90 days, regrets doing so. Mandatory password changes at a scheduled interval are no longer recommended by NIST.
