Failure Mode Ratio

Famous quotes containing the words failure, mode and/or ratio:

“I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Yours of the 24th, asking “the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law” is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully.... Work, work, work, is the main thing.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)