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“Too many production systems are like Schrodinger’s cat—locked inside a box, with no way to observe its actual state.”
― Michael T. Nygard, Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software

“My dream—the solution—is that we would have a National Entrepreneur Day, with the following message: Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but 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. You are at the source of our antifragility. Our nation thanks you.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“People who struggle with kaizen do so not because the steps are hard but because they are easy. They can’t overcome the cultural training that says change must always be instantaneous, it must always require steely self-discipline, and it must never be pleasurable.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain why he made the mistake rather than moving on. These types often consider themselves the “victims” of some large plot, a bad boss, or bad weather.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder