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“No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”
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“I have heard that capital is an intelligence from the future, reaching back through time to assemble itself”
― God-Shaped Hole
― God-Shaped Hole
“The essential thing was to save the greatest possible number of persons from dying and being doomed to unending separation. And to do this there was only one resource: to fight the plague. There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“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.”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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