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:

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

    ... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars
    to escape writing of the worst thing of all—
    not the crimes of other, not even our own death,
    but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough
    so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem
    mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?
    Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.
    Donn Pearce, U.S. writer, and Stuart Rosenberg. Camp commandant (Strother Martin)