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"Consistency is the virtue of a narrow mind" (Emerson; my take - new evidence requires new thinking). "No entity without identity" (Quine). "Listen to the syste
by osullivj 10y ago
"Consistency is the virtue of a narrow mind" (Emerson; my take - new evidence requires new thinking). "No entity without identity" (Quine). "Listen to the system" (me, when debugging & reminding self to actually read error msgs instead of making assumptions). "No good deed goes unpunished" (trad, but my take on corporate politics). "Res ipsa loquitor" (Hunter S Thompson; the thing speaks for itself). "Nimium non sufficaret" (me on a pub crawl - too much is not enough!)...
- orky56 10y agoIn the book Santaram by Gregory David Roberts there's a quote that provides a different perspective to "No good deed goes unpunished". It says "Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved."
- osullivj 10y agoNice angle. Yes - motivations, consequences and the apparent and underlying connections between them often confound. Especially if you take things at face value!