The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life.

The fear of failure is not just the greatest fear of man, it is the fear of man. All other fears are avatars of the fear of failure.

The fear of failure kills creativity and intelligence. The only thing it produces is conformity.

Failure is a social taboo.

Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, ‘on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?’ Extremely difficult.

The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life,

Failure is like flu. It can happen to anyone. Just as it is difficult to find a person who hasn’t had the flu, it is difficult to find someone who has not been stuck by failure at some time.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

Friendship/Relationship... all is about the deal and business... give or take!?

Kiss me. My lips are on fire.You, my friend, are the object of mysecret desire.

When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four.

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.

I failed so therefore I succeed.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

My prayers are just an outpouring of gratitude for the assurance of that most completely desired Will of God, which will seem all the more desirable in all that is ahead.