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So what happened to the "avoid success at all costs" motto?

It has two different parsings:

    avoid (success at all costs)
    (avoid success) at all costs

The first is more apt description of Haskell's design, the later is more of a joke.

One could say that the second parsing is... too eager? :)

It's actually "avoid success-at-all-costs" as Simon clarified.

  (S (VP avoid
         (NP (NP success)
             (PP at
                 (NP all costs)))))

  (S (VP avoid
         (NP success)
         (PP at
             (NP all costs))))