Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
We can't all and some of us don't. That's all there is to it.
I have always considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mistakes as a part of the learning process. I prefer a dash of daring and persistence to perfection. I have always supported learning on the part of my team members by paying vigilant attention to each of their attempts, be they successful or unsuccessful.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
"It is the kind of thing that happens to you when you are stupid," said Esa. "Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them."
Error is the price we pay for progress.
Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I’ve grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let’s peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write.