"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being."
-Doug Coupland
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"Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.“
-Doug Coupland
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