Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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p. 45Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome.
Stephen Jay Gould
Even soul-force, when it is effective, destroys. Only those who have used it with eyes open, know how much more destructive it can be than the sword and the cannon; and only those who do not limit their view to the act and its immediate results, can see how tremendous are its after-effects, how much is eventually destroyed and with that much all the life that depended upon it and fed upon it. Evil cannot perish without the destruction of much that lives by the evil, and it is no less destruction even if we personally are saved the pain of a sensational act of violence.
Sri Aurobindo
"The pleasure has been all ours... Sensational, from a sensational player"
Henrik Larsson
A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.
Anthony Stafford Beer
It was very boring. Perhaps it was his job to be boring, Vivian thought, in which case he was very good at his job.
Diana Wynne Jones
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