“More data means more information, but it also means more false information.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“When I was up there, stranded by myself, did I think I was going to die? Yes. Absolutely, and that’s what you need to know going in because it’s going to happen to you. This is space. It does not cooperate. At some point everything is going to go south on you. Everything is going to go south and you’re going to say 'This is it. This is how I end.' Now you can either accept that or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin. You do the math, you solve one problem. Then you solve the next one, and then the next and if you solve enough problems you get to come home.”
― The Martian: A Screenplay
― The Martian: A Screenplay
“Anything that makes it easier for the associative machine to run smoothly will also bias beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. But”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“the more interesting their conversation, the more cultured they are, the more they will be trapped into thinking that they are effective at what they are doing in real business (something psychologists call the halo effect, the mistake of thinking that skills in, say, skiing translate unfailingly into skills in managing a pottery workshop or a bank department, or that a good chess player would be a good strategist in real life).”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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