Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
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Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
I began to walk, fearing a hundred things that would never harm me and utterly ignorant of the real risks I ran.
Gene Wolfe • The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Predicting world state 10 years out is difficult
Our ability to make the most out of uncertainty is what creates the most potential value. We should be fueled not by a desire for a quick catharsis but by intrigue. Where certainty ends, progress begins. Our obsession with certainty has another side effect. It distorts our vision through a set of funhouse mirrors called unknown knowns.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
when we face uncertainty, we should be open to the quixotic and the unconventional.
Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries
VALUING IS MAN'S EMOTIONAL REACTION TO THE VARIOUS STATES OF HIS ENVIRONMENT, BOTH THAT OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD AND THAT OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF HIS OWN BODY.
LUDWIG VON MISES
In a way, these things they’d gathered were an illusion. A way to reassure themselves that they were doing something to prepare.
Brandon Sanderson • Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time Book 13)
Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights.
Stephen King • The Dark Tower I
Linearity is an artificial way of viewing the world. Real life isn’t a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace.