“The reason why fierce animals are rare is that fierce animals are powerful, but
often very vulnerable. They attack the weaks in the hordes, not the strong ones
and this is because normally their community is much less protective and a
wound can be lethal for them.” - Stefano’s blog

Anything can be made measurable in a way that is superior to not measuring it
at all. — Tom Gilb
Corollary: Anything can be made measurable in a way that is inferior to not
measuring it at all. — Jason Yip
Brian Marick’s blog

A very simple test for risk management is to look at the project plan laid out in
Project or in any other scheme, and ask the people involved, the people who
understand the project, to point to a task that might not happen at all. In most
projects the personnel will stare at you in complete lack of comprehension.
They say, Well, why would we have something on the project plan that wouldn’t
happen at all and my answer to that is: because that’s a risk.
- Laurent Bossavit’s blog

Even when a correlation represents a true phenomenon, it can be misleading if
the real action concerns a third variable that is related to the two you’re
studying. For example, studies show that intelligence declines by birth order. In
other words, a person who was a first-born child will on average have a higher
IQ than someone who was born second. Third-, fourth-, fifth-born children and
so on have progressively lower average IQs. This data seems to present a clear
warning to prospective parents: Don’t have too many kids, or they’ll come out
increasingly stupid. Not so. (Read story for details) - Brian Marick’s blog

Naturally the common people don’t want war… but after all it is the leaders of a
country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the
people along… All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and
denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to
danger. - Hermann Goering, 1936 (on Ted Neward’s blog)