"We should not try to design a better……" — Tim Harford
"We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops."
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18 Quotes by Tim Harford
Tim Harford has 18 quotes on this site.
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Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out,…
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Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time
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I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business…
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Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten…
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You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and…
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There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the…
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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…
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Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks…
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Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
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Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline…
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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…
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There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.
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