Success and Failure

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.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

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

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My hands are free, but my mind hesitates.

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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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Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.

Unknown, (motto of the Dutch Poet's Society), in Success and Failure

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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To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

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To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of them absent.

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

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure

Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities.

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Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.

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To err is human, to forgive unusual.

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Use soft words and hard arguments.

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To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.

Erik Nupponen, in Success and Failure

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Your ass is grass and I am the lawnmower.

J. A. O'Fihely, in Success and Failure

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

John Ousterhout, in Success and Failure

Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

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