QUOTED

What is fail? What does a person have to do to deserve this treatment? It has no formal definition, but loosely, a fail is some bit of negligence, misunderstanding, unwillingness to read documentation, or just plain unforgivable stupidity that leads to a problem. Fail is amplified by the magnitude of the problem and the ease with which the error could have been detected.”

–Persai co-founder and former Uncov blogger Ted Dziuba explains the Grand Unified Theory of FAIL.