Clearly some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.
'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising fails to recognize the coming storm and then is rocked to the core by methodical crippling attacks.
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
Nothing fails like failure.
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment and is not improved is surely a therapeutic failure.
Nothing succeeds they say like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
I can accept failure everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.