Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.
Nassim Nicholas TalebI'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
Nassim Nicholas TalebWear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.
Nassim Nicholas TalebWittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb