“101 Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.”
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
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2000s
“I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work.”
Katie MacAlister (1964) Author
Source: Blow Me Down
James C. Collins book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Source: Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, 1994, p. 199
“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
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Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 302
E. B. White (1899–1985) American writer
Quoted in profile by Israel Shenker, "E. B. White: Notes and Comment by Author" http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/lifetimes/white-notes.html, The New York Times (11 July 1969)
