Quotes About Progress

since mistakes lower the odds of future mistakes.

A energia em excesso liberada em uma reação exagerada aos contratempos é o que promove a inovação! Essa

In 1960 Taiwan had a much lower literacy rate than the Philippines and half the income per person; today Taiwan has ten times the income. At

that to understand successes and analyze what caused them, we need to study the traits present in failures.

Someone paid a price for the system to improve.

Corollary to Moore's Law: every ten years, collective wisdom degrades by half.*

growth in society may not come from raising the average the Asian way, but from increasing the number of people in the "tails," that small, very small number of risk takers crazy enough to have ideas of their own

you need to make more and more to stay in the same place.

They will find something he did before when he was successful that he has subsequently stopped doing, and attribute his failure to that. The truth will be, however, that he simply ran out of luck.

it does not come naturally to me.*

When we think of tomorrow, we just project it as another yesterday.

users of these machines gain no strength beyond an initial phase.

we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic growth of the planet and pulling others out of poverty.

benefits from volatility and variability.

as self-interest can be the driver of growth.

Just as a little bit of fire here and there gets rid of the flammable material in a forest, a little bit of harm here and there in an economy weeds out the vulnerable firms early enough to allow them to "fail early" (so they can start again) and minimize the long-term damage to the system.

Most mistakes get worse when you try to correct them.

Ele percebeu que algumas coisas precisam se quebrar para que o sistema se aperfeiçoe — o que é denominado de destruição criativa —, uma noção desenvolvida, entre muitos outros, pelo filósofo Karl Marx, e um conceito descoberto, como mostraremos no capítulo 17, por Nietzsche.

The laser is a prime illustration of a tool made for a given purpose (actually no real purpose) that then found applications that were not even dreamed of at the time. It was a typical "solution looking for a problem.

I was told that a scientist managed the company and that he had the instinct, as a scientist, to just let scientists look wherever their instinct took them. Commercialization came later.

If you want to become antifragile, put yourself in the situation "loves mistakes"—to the right of "hates mistakes"—by making these numerous and small in harm. We will call this process and approach the "barbell" strategy.

without penalty to themselves from having been wrong in the first paper

History and societies do not crawl. They make jumps.

someone may evolve and contradict earlier beliefs