Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/pb2gjrze · submitted 1997
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
tiny.ag/r3bhbgos · submitted 1997
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
tiny.ag/31pmzh6f · submitted 1997
The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.
tiny.ag/uxknfqoq · submitted 1997
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/hhdwpvkc · submitted 1997
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of them absent.
tiny.ag/uijwr4e3 · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive unusual.
tiny.ag/qdve785j · submitted 1997
The more you know, the less you need to show.
tiny.ag/wj0czhzk · submitted 1997
The more you put into life, the less you will get.
tiny.ag/5wcgbb1a · submitted 1997
The more you know, the less you think you know.
tiny.ag/aa3jqtel · submitted 1997
Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
tiny.ag/p0z9jdbr · submitted 1997
Silverman's Law: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
tiny.ag/jb6usc1h · submitted 1997
Reach for the moon and if you miss at least you will land among the stars.
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/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/4wuke9ix · submitted 1997
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
tiny.ag/xhom8dbn · submitted 1997
Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail.
tiny.ag/jaktd8ze · submitted 1997
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
tiny.ag/pcn2zosg · submitted 1997
Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
tiny.ag/ckyj1g65 · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/oxjpvl03 · submitted 1997
Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
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