The Discovery of France,
Sometimes people ask you a question with their eyes begging you to not tell them the truth.
Silent evidence pervades everything connected to the notion of . By history, I don't mean just those learned-but-dull books in the history section (with Renaissance paintings on their cover to attract...
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (one of the doer-Stoic authors), fire feeds on obstacles.
Religion isn’t so much about telling man that there is one God as about preventing man from thinking that he is God.
Rank beliefs not by their plausibility but by how much harm they might cause
Life would be unbearably bland if we had no enemies on whom to waste efforts and energy.
Le grandi aziende adorano l’idea del piano strategico. Vogliono pagare qualcuno per comprendere dove stanno andando. Eppure non esistono prove che dimostrino che la pianificazione strategica funzioni...
Latin saying that sophistication is born out of hunger (artificia docuit fames).
Koulutus tekee viisaasta hieman viisaamman, mutta hölmöstä valtavasti vaarallisemman.
It is a very recent disease to mistake the unobserved for the nonexistent; but some are plagued with the worse disease of mistaking the unobserved for the unobservable.
Having an assistant (except for the strictly necessary) removes your soul from the game.
Don’t complain too loud about wrongs done you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. S...
Why do we keep focusing on the minutiae, not the possible significant large events, in spite of the obvious evidence of their huge influence?
The more lethal the risks, the less visible they will be, since the severely victimized are likely to be eliminated from the evidence. The
Cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
The way to avoid the ills of the narrative fallacy is to favor experimentation over storytelling, experience over history, and clinical knowledge over theories. Certainly
The strength of the computer entrepreneur Steve Jobs was precisely in distrusting market research and focus groups— those based on asking people what they want—and following his own imagination. His m...