You have surely heard that success has many parents and failure&#x27;s an orphan. The proverb is of course cynical, but there is more truth to it than it seems. Success often <i>needs</i> many parents, while failure may come from a single factor among many. Or simply because there were not <i>enough parents</i> to make it succeed, in which case, you could say only half-jokingly that the failure happened for no reason.