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“Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time”

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“The evolutionary algorithm--of variation and selection, repeated--searches for solutions in a world where the problems keep changing, trying all sorts of variants and doing…

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There's lots and lots of guys out there. The question is trying to find the right one.

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If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going,…

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In many ways, love seems to be totally divorced from economics. But then you realize - well, the stakes are high. This is something…

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I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the world would be a better place if people…

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Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might…

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You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

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I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get an investment…

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The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with…

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Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in the Second…

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“We should aim to make ours a world where people feel free to do things they enjoy, even if others are mildly inconvenienced, but…

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Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you feel really…

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When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take…

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Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,…

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No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

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“Rhiannon's Law #28: If you're going to fuck up, be sure to fuck up good and proper. Nothing makes failure acceptable, so you might…

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Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle…

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad...

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God's love never fail :)

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Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve…

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“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)”

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I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

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