see https://www.carnegie.org/about/our-history/gospelofwealth/ https://www.carnegie.org/about/our-history/gospelofwealth/ Also, Perlis was talking about comput

see https://www.carnegie.org/about/our-history/gospelofwealth/ https://www.carnegie.org/about/our-history/gospelofwealth/ Also, Perlis was talking about computing, but his aphorism could equally well be applied to winning the rat race: Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem.