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Original source unknown (at least to me).
ETA: Now that I think about it, I should explain this a little. It's funny and all, but it's a rationality quote because it conveys to me the idea that Eliezer calls nihil supernum. If your best isn't enough then God won't save you, your parents won't save you, Superman won't save you. You just...don't get whatever it is you wanted.
Here you go
Not necessarily. There's Lady Luck :-)
Thanks for the link, but that's not the original source ;-)
How are you distinguishing the true original source from the it-is-actually-secondary "original" source?
By age. Despair, Inc, which invented the demotivator, was incorporated in 1998. I first ran across the quote on Usenet in 1994 or 1995.
Ah, a good point. It's interesting that Google in unable to locate this quote before it became a demotivator.