Success and Failure

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

Unknown, 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

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

Unknown, 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

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Don't think, just do.

Reiko Horton, in Success and Failure

The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

I want what I want when I want it!

Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure