Nassim Nicholas Taleb
(1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
“58: Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
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Ken McLeod
(1948) Canadian lama
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“Stupid fools look just as good as military geniuses until the fighting starts.”
Robert A. Heinlein
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Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 4 (p. 37)
“There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them.”
Paulo Coelho
(1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
As quoted in Honor Your Gifts (2007) by Dona M. Deane, p. 199.
Context: There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
“Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.”
Pete Seeger
(1919–2014) American folk singer
Pema Chödron
(1936) American philosopher
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)
Paulo Coelho
(1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
As quoted in Honor Your Gifts (2007) by Dona M. Deane, p. 199.
Variant: But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for
Kirby Page
(1890–1957) American clergyman
The Personality of Jesus (1932)
Context: None of the three ways of dealing with social injustice can entirely prevent or remove human suffering. Resistance by violence tends to increase and intensify suffering; inaction or failure to exert effective restraint perpetuates the misery of the victims of crime or exploitation; non-violent coercion likewise often results in suffering. The policy of wisdom is to use that method which involves a minimum of suffering, and which offers a maximum of redemption.