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Politics is a thieves game. Those who stay in it long enough are invariably robbed.

Shakespeare (?) from The Power Broker

Usually when someone makes a decision that seems off to me, it’s either because I know something that they don’t or they know something I don’t!

Julia Evans

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Poul Anderson

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes. . . . Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes.

Russell Ackoff

A good meeting is a good meeting less because of what happens at the time, but because of what came before — and most importantly, what comes after

Tim Harford

Education is knowing what to do when you don’t know

Unknown from The Undoing Project

We're lost, but we're making good time

Yogi Berra

The poor have occasionally objected to being governed badly. The rich have always objected to being governed at all.

G.K. Chesterton

If you’re overthinking, write.
If you’re underthinking, read.

Alex Wieckowski

[On medical school] 50% of what we teach you over the next five years will be wrong, or inaccurate. Sadly, we don’t know which 50%.

Unknown

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him

Aldous Huxley

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau