The side with the fanciest uniforms loses. Muphy's Laws of Combat When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Charles Goodhart When everything is freely available, nothing has value. Jerry Kaplan One day on the job is more than one year in a book. Kevin Systrom This is all a big lottery, and press is a good way to get more tickets. Jason Kincaid Many people think they are risk takers, but are actually gamblers Eric Falkenstein Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the Gods made for fun. Alan Watts Tant qu’on fait rire, c’est des plaisanteries. Dès que c’est pas drôle, c’est des insultes. Coluche There is a certain communism of the senses at the root of most things we consider fun. David Graeber L'oeuvre d'art naît du renoncement de l'intelligence à raisonner le concret. Albert Camus It isn’t the person with the best idea who wins; it’s the person who has the greatest understanding of what really matters to people. Bernadette Jiwa The question is not whether experts are well trained. It is whether their world is predictable. Daniel Kahneman Everything is about money except money. Money is about time. Jared A. Brock If we desire respect for the law we must first make the law respectable. Louis Brandeis Invention is not about being brilliant; it’s about being logical and persistent. James Dyson Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Dale Carnegie Scientists are just people, prone to the same silliness as anyone else, but the enterprise, the process, slowly but surely grinds away human weakness David McRaney The reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky Nassim Nicholas Taleb