Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes on Failure
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I have no right to risk. No, that's not quite correct. I have no right to failure. And I don't trust myself anymore. I don't know what's happened to my edge. Lost it in a strange land.
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There is no safety. Only varying states of risk. And failure.
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And what goes on in the head of a walking dead man? What personal failure could he possibly fear more than death itself?
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'It didn't work, so let's do it some more'? In my line of work, they call that military stupidity. I don't know what they call it in civilian life.