Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/xts9pvd0 · submitted 1997
Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.
Unknown, (from Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/rcehbv9s · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/jb6usc1h · submitted 1997
Reach for the moon and if you miss at least you will land among the stars.
tiny.ag/p0z9jdbr · submitted 1997
Silverman's Law: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
tiny.ag/tkee56g3 · submitted 1997
Small minds are the first to condemn great ideas.
tiny.ag/s1xthnqz · submitted 1997
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
tiny.ag/qwjktm2e · submitted 1997
Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.
tiny.ag/yojpg6ut · submitted 1997
Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.
tiny.ag/axmb1ikq · submitted 1997
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/0jnrf9e2 · submitted 1997
Nothing good ever ends.
tiny.ag/6ntlf03d · submitted 1997
No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
tiny.ag/euochyxn · submitted 1997
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Daniel Schorr, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/zmkoye6d · submitted 1997
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
tiny.ag/zdanfcvk · submitted 1997
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
tiny.ag/dhpqxvke · submitted 1997
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ass2ou8g · submitted 1997
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
tiny.ag/zsifm5dt · submitted 1997
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qkzfb5u9 · submitted 1997
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I see things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part I, Act I (1921), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/u1iblda0 · submitted 1997
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.
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