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In general, failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. It may be viewed as the opposite of success.

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Other failures

  • For military disasters, see List of military disasters
  • For events that were highly anticipated but either did not happen or turned out to be disappointing, see Non-event.
  • Putting the word failure in to Google and hitting "I'm feeling lucky" is also a failure.

See also

Bibliography

  • Lansdowne, Bridget L.M. BOOM, BUST, BANG!: A History of American Failures. Staskin Mellville-Organization Press, 2004. ISBN ?.
  • Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies, New Tork: Basic Books, 1984. Paperback reprint, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-691-00412-9
  • Sandage, Scott A. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-674-01510-X, ISBN 0-674-02107-X.
  • Gay, Jared I. Enough Idle Chit-chat, Let's RPG!: An in-depth analysis of Toad's failures Some Place, Australia. ISBN 0-867-53090-X

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