If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.
I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

