Amateurs obsess over strategy, Irjah had once told their class. Professionals obsess over logistics.
“the clever are marrying the clever and manically educating their children, making it ever harder for the poor to catch up.”
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“GPS timing is incredibly precise; of all the problems in engineering, it’s one of the only ones in which engineers have been forced to include both special and general relativity in their calculations.”
― What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“A weight loss research study showed that individuals who tracked the food they ate were able to lose twice as much weight as those who didn’t.”
― Boost: Create Good Habits Using Psychology and Technology
― Boost: Create Good Habits Using Psychology and Technology
“If there were no storm, I’d be going directly southeast toward my goal. As it is, going only south, I’m not nearly as fast. I’m traveling 90 kilometers per day as usual, but I only get 37 kilometers closer to Schiaparelli because Pythagoras is a dick.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“9 out of 10 people who undergo heart bypass surgeries fail to change their behavior, even though it would help them avoid pain, surgery, and likely an early death!”
― Boost: Create Good Habits Using Psychology and Technology
― Boost: Create Good Habits Using Psychology and Technology
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