Failure Is the Only Option/Quotes

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Aku: What's the point of fighting? You'll just defeat me, and I'll be back in a week or so.
Another failure, Shredder? You have an almost perfect record!
That means that Voyager is stuck and trying to get home... it's the premise of the series. This explains why the "Will Voyager make it home" plot features in so many episodes... because nothing sets up quality television like knowing ahead of time that the heroes are doomed not only to have their hopes and dreams smashed like a glass menagerie under the feet of an angry elephant, but also a chance to witness them wallowing in the stench of their own personal failure. Again, too good for 'em, I say!
Chuck Sonnenberg, Sci Fi Debris, Voyager Episode Review: "Eye Of The Needle"
We'll strategize this the usual way. The powerful will delegate to the untalented until failure is achieved.

We're bound to fail
'cause you failed before
We're bound to fail

'cause you failed before
Bound to Fail by Accept
Failure is always an option
MythBusters manifesto
Losing is fun!
—The Dwarf Fortress motto

So I found that life is just a game.
But you know, there's never been a winner.
Try your hardest, just to be a loser.

The world will still be turning when you're gone.
Wheels of Confusion by Black Sabbath

Apple employee: Mr. Jobs? What's our counter-strategy versus Microsoft?
Steve Jobs: 1. Provide rope.
Steve Jobs: 2. Wait.