Success and Failure

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Desperation is like stealing from the mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Where there is no vision, there is no achievment.

Chris Y., in Success and Failure

Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.

John Winsett, (said at a training seminar), in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Winchell, in Success and Failure

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Walter Winchell, in Success and Failure

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Woodrow Wilson, in Success and Failure

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

Earl Wilson, in Success and Failure

Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.

Tennessee Williams, in Success and Failure

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde, in Success and Failure

People who never acheive happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep,they are thinking about what to complain about tommorrow.

Adam Zimbler, in Success and Failure

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

Weisert, 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.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (the Susie Derkins character), in Success and Failure

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

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.

Bert Whitney, in Success and Failure

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace