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Why a World War I artifact has become the de facto tool used in twenty-first-century project management has never been quite clear to me.
“Too many production systems are like Schrodinger’s cat—locked inside a box, with no way to observe its actual state.”
― Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
― Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
“my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain why he made the mistake rather than moving on. These types often consider themselves the “victims” of some large plot, a bad boss, or bad weather.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“In the complex world, the notion of “cause” itself is suspect; it is either nearly impossible to detect or not really defined—another reason to ignore newspapers, with their constant supply of causes for things.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
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“My dream—the solution—is that we would have a National Entrepreneur Day, with the following message: Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic growth of the planet and pulling others out of poverty. You are at the source of our antifragility. Our nation thanks you.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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