"You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality."

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Source : "Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. July 28, 2010.

Fred Brooks

#Believe Quotes #Reality Quotes #May Quotes

“Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.”
“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”
“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation
“If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.”
“Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.”
“I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.”

Source : "'I Know What I Stand For'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.
“Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.”
“I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.”

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