Rpersivale

“preventing riots depends less on reducing average levels of discontent than on appeasing people at the extreme.”
― Scott E. Page, The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

“couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys—but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly. —Richard Feynman”
― Scott E. Page, The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

“rarely, if ever, took a hands-on role and helped to nurture a company. In his later years, Georges Doriot realized how critical such nurturing was in determining the success of a new venture. “I don’t know anyone on Wall Street who ever built a company,” said Doriot. “They simply furnish money, and that’s the least important part of it.”
― Spencer E. Ante, Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital

“To rely on a single model is hubris.”
― Scott E. Page, The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You