Failure is guaranteed, although the form it takes — the scraps and tatters thrown back at him by Berlin and other capitals — are not in his control.
His failure is guaranteed — but the irrationality of desire has already been foreshadowed, when Brian explored the widow's house and she warned him to keep an eye out for her dead husband.
The big thing I learned at Odeo was you have to be emotionally invested in your work or failure is guaranteed".
In the absence of these pressures, and if incentives are all that are put forward, then failure is guaranteed.
The design process need not be complicated or time-consuming, but it does need to be intentional, because without planning, failure is guaranteed.
I suspect the publishers analyzed Oyster's offer in what must have been some pretty time-consuming negotiations and dinner parties, and, seeing that Oyster would be unable to pay for the customer's effective per-book discount (which is the whole point of a subscription service) if it were to succeed, they concluded its failure was guaranteed one way or the other.
Resilience against single or dual failures is guaranteed by constructing an appropriately meshed network structure that offers path diversity.
Their common advantages are that the prediction accuracy of the failure probability is guaranteed with certainty; additional model runs always ameliorate the accuracy; a change of the uncertainty model is possible without additional runs.
Having just one hour to fish the Amazon Basin is a little like setting out to climb Mount Everest in shorts and a T-shirt: failure is virtually guaranteed.
Failure is virtually guaranteed for two reasons -- first, the goal is almost always to automate the current system, not to rethink the underlying organization; and second, rigid procurement procedures do not permit the vendors to adapt to unforeseen circumstances.
This is a significant practical hurdle on its own, but failure is all but guaranteed by also engaging major stakeholders and governments to establish a standard that will enjoy wide support and adoption.
