I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.
A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.
Good counsel failing men can give, for why? He that's aground knows where the shoal doth lie
How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.