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Failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
Thomas J. Watson is attributed with saying "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate". Wired Magazine editor Kevin Kelly likewise explains that a great deal can be learned from things going unexpectedly, and that part of science's success comes from keeping blunders "small, manageable, constant, and trackable". He uses the example of engineers and programmers who push systems to their limits, breaking them to learn about them. Kelly also warns against creating a culture (e.g. school system) that punishes failure harshly, because this inhibits a creative process, and risks teaching people not to communicate important failures with others (e.g. Null results).
The criteria for failure are heavily dependent on context of use, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. A situation considered to be a failure by one might be considered a success by another, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. Similarly, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation.
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I was thinking that
You would stay (the/to)day
Something tells me that
You'll show up to say
Bye...good....bye
Salt wound
Too soon
(if I push you gone)
You'd just let it stand
Your brain (for spray) good one
Full of rocks and sand
Grasping both confused
I (couldn't love you) more
Always (talking me but did she know the sure)
Bye...good...bye
Breathe hard
(chips start) falling down
(head/high hopes) crawling down
Please
Bye..good..bye
Salt wound
Too soon
Falling down
Breathe hard
Crawling now
(chips fall splits too deep)
(head hopes)
Bye good bye