“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.”

笑談自己的錯誤可延長我們的壽命，嘲笑別人的則會減短壽命。

― Cullen Hightowern 美國著名的引語和諷刺作家。

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”

你要我給你成功的公式嗎？其實很簡單，真的 : 兩倍率地失敗。 你把失敗當成成功的敵人。但它根本不是。 失敗會讓你灰心或你可從失敗學到東西, 所以勇敢向前犯些錯吧 – 盡你可能的去做。因為請記住 – 那是你能找到成功的地方。

― Thomas J. Watson 曾擔任 IBM 的董事長兼首席執行官。從1914 年到 1956 年，將 IBM 發展壯大。