Thought of the day
"Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one."
~ Alec Guinness de Cuffe (1914 - 2000)
posted by Wayne Smallman at Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
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Hm.. And they say, "failure is the mother of invention"; seems to be a thin-ass line around here somewhere.. =)
I mean, look at all the mishaps that've turned into something? ..Every war-related -"mistake" (war itself), has fed more innovation than anything else; the computer, for instance..
What about "Failure has a thousand casualties; Success is the price?" (?)
Or, I dunno..
"What about 'Failure has a thousand casualties; Success is the price?'"
Now that's a question wandering into a very philosophical part of the mind.
To answer that question requires me to ask another: do the ends justify the means?
I think the answer could be, "ain't it fun to be forever in debt?", or, alternatively; "yeah, but we owe it all to failure"..
Yeah, it is interesting.
I think it's primarily the MEAN -means, that you're unable to 'write off' on the "tax-report", dig? =)
Seems like the 'Stalin Hotline' is down at the moment, so we've got to handle this ourselves..
('t was a cheap shot, but a standing example..)
=)
I'm of the belief that if the good gained by the ends, then so long as the loss in execution is less than and not equal to or greater than the good derived, the ends are justified.
And let's face it, that notion has been put into practice often enough...
You're very, very true.
I find this somewhat ironic; that most of the time, the greatest cost there could be, is merely 'scepticism', -that is, towards innovation.
The hesitance, -and opposition-, towards idea-deployment is almost always the enemy. But, once 'the sheep', (if that's legal terms,) is converted by the benefits of this new idea, or item, they embrace it as if it was 'their thing', and go out for new things to be sceptical about.
Too bad so many 'grand things' never came to light, just because someone's sceptisism proved 'un-revoltable'..
..A big killer to innovation this; and some of the sheep are the one's sporting the shiny coin-purse.
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