“Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.”
“Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.”
“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
“The more complex the strategy, the less truth there is in it.”
“I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.”
“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”