Quote by James C. Collins

“An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we…

— William James

“Every object and event must have a plausible chain of causality that leads to it.”

— S.F. Chapman

“The ultimate test of an explanation is whether it would have made the event predictable in advance.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“The ultimate test of an explanation is whether it would have made the event predictable in advance. No story of Google’s unlikely success will…

— Daniel Kahneman

“As we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoughly analyzed...”

— Tasha Alexander

“Abstraction can be a powerful tool, but it can also lead to heads buried in the sand. In”

— Peter Lucas

“The chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you’ve spent talking about it beforehand. ”

— Jean-Philippe Toussaint

“There's barely a hair's breadth Between emergence and passage So why misspend The time in between?”

— Neil Mach

“I think that as we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoroughly analyzed.”

— Tasha Alexander

“It's a huge step forward to realize that the worst thing to happen is never the event, but the event and losing your head.…

— Ryan Holiday

You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about radical contingency,…

— Kehinde Wiley

“This is why theory can be so valuable: it can explain what will happen, even before you experience it.”

— Clayton M. Christensen