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The world we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts - John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf Read more →

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Comment is free, but facts are sacred. -- C.P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, 1921 When you hear claims by anyone about any topic, ask for the data to support that claim. If it's an anecdote, that data is... Read more →

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All risk comes from uncertainty, reducible, and irreducible. Making any credible decision in the presence of uncertainty requires making an estimate of the probability of success of that decision on the project Risk Management is Project Management for Adults -... Read more →

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Comment is free, but facts are sacred -- C.P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, 1921 Read more →

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The first responsibility of the key leaders in the acquisition workforce is to think ‒ Frank Kendall, Under Secretary for Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Read more →

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The only thing you can really control is how you react to things out of your control - Bassam Tarazi, from Carol Williams, Enterprise Risk Management Blog site Read more →

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“Never engage in a pissing match with a skunk: he possesses important natural advantages” - Sir Bryan Cartledge ex UK Ambassador in Moscow, from The Spy and The Traitor, Bem Macintyre Read more →

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indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus ("I become annoyed when the great Homer is being drowsy"). - Horace in Ars Poetica (c. 18 BC) Read more →

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Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century transcendental philosopher from Selected Writings... Read more →

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"Until we are all free, we are none of us free." - Emma Lazarus Read more →

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“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22 Read more →

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“It’s not enough to understand; you’ve got to do something.” -- Sandra Day O’Connor Read more →

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When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of... Read more →

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Political disorders can be quickly healed if they are seen well in advance; when, for lack of a diagnosis, they are allowed to grow in such a way that everyone can recognize them, remedies are too late - Niccolo Machiavelli,... Read more →

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The impression of complexity is probably due to lack of proper analysis and not to any inherent complexity of our systems. —Eli Goldratt Read more →

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When considering the quality of an argument, thou shalt not consider the source of the argument. In a previous post on the Ad Hominem argument, I focused on the fallacy of No Estimates, whose proponents claim, fallaciously, that you can... Read more →

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Si vis pacem, para bellum you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you ― Leon Trotsky Read more →

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Please stop saying you researched it. You didn't research anything and it's highly probable that you don't even know how to do so. Did you compile a literature review and write abstracts on each article? Or better, did you collect... Read more →

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that Democracy... Read more →

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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson Read more →