Success and Failure

Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

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Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.

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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.

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Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail.

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Once you've tried to change the world you find it's a whole bunch easier to change your mind.

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Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

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Official Project Stages: (1) Uncritical Acceptance. (2) Wild Enthusiasm. (3) Dejected Disillusionment. (4) Total Confusion. (5) Search for the Guilty. (6) Punishment of the Innocent. (7) Promotion of the Non-participants.

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Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.

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Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies.

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Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

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If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help.

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Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterwards.

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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

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God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

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Finagle's Fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.

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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.

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Every solution breeds new problems.

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Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.

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Everything you do or say is public relations.

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