• Posts Tagged ‘disaster’

    Fiasco vs failure

    by  • March 13, 2011 • News • 0 Comments

    Thank you Skype for showing us with Skype 5.0 a real life example of what Orlando Bloom explains in the beginning of the movie Elizabethtown. From the movie Elizabethtown: [ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ]

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    Sometimes failures are the foundations of success – Apple’s Newton & iPhone

    by  • May 16, 2010 • iPhone, Nite Talks, Quotes • 0 Comments

    “As somebody once said, there’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco. A failure is simply the non-presence of success. Any fool can accomplish failure. But a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. A fiasco is a folktale told to others that makes other people feel more alive because it didn’t [...]

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