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“No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”
― Helmuth von Moltke (derived)

tags: planning, plans

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“Staring at danger may not be pleasant – but closing your eyes will not make the danger go away, and with closed eyes you will surely be destroyed by it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Catastrophes!

tags: catastrophe, danger, foresight, risk

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“At the present time, I long only to sleep and to remain silent. I am sick of humanity.”
― Albert Camus, Correspondence

tags: depression, humanity, sleep

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“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
― Edward O. Wilson

tags: crisis, emotions, flaws, human-beings, humanity, humans, institutions, people, problems, technology

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“We" are the empirical decision makers who hold that uncertainty is our discipline, and that understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human pursuit.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

tags: empiricism, karl-popper

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