WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 14 May 2026 03:20:32 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg safe – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Taleb, Nassim Nicholas -- The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, “Robustness and Antifragility” (2010) https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/72747/ https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/72747/#respond Fri, 01 Nov 2024 15:42:36 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=72747 Failure-resistant is achievable; failure-free is not.


Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, “Robustness and Antifragility” (2010)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/72747/feed/ 0 72747 Hammarskjold, Dag -- Speech, 180th Anniversary of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Williamsburg (15 May 1956) https://wist.info/hammarskjold-dag/26143/ https://wist.info/hammarskjold-dag/26143/#respond Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:06:35 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=26143 It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.


Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish diplomat, author, UN Secretary-General (1953-61)
Speech, 180th Anniversary of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Williamsburg (15 May 1956)
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