Success and Failure

Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.

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My hands are free, but my mind hesitates.

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Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

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Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

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Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.

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

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

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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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Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.

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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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Reach for the moon and if you miss at least you will land among the stars.

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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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If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

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If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

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If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.

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If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.

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If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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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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