"You show me a successful complex system, and……" — Tim Harford
"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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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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We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.
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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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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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More Complex Quotes
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
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I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more…
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its…
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
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The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification…
— Edward de Bono
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Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.
— Sarah Brightman
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
— James Buchan
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
— Warren Buffett
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
— Steve Buscemi
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