Failure

Failure

Failure is 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.

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Famous quotes containing the word failure:

    “The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency—the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
    —Allan Bloom (1930–1992)

    “Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection’s failure to substitute misrule for bad government.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    “Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again next time.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)