Please don't hastily dismiss my quote, I haven't had breakfast yet.
"Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet." -Orson Scott Card, _Children of the Mind
Also, "short is good" would narrow this quotes focus considerably.
New here, sorry for the redundancy. I probably should have guessed that such a popular quote had been used.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“In life as in poker, the occasional coup does not necessarily demonstrate skill and superlative performance is not the ability to eliminate chance, but the capacity to deliver good outcomes over and over again. That is how we know Warren Buffett is a skilled investor and Johnny Chan a skilled poker player.” — John Kay, Financial Times
Your post lead me by tangent to wonder, especially in on-line formats, how often people simply don't respond to arguments that they agree with.
This made me think of a sports gambling database and strategy set that I read about in an ESPN magazine at a barber shop. I don't remember the specifics but I recall that the database was shared by invitation only and had an intentional "barrier to entry" level buy in, which seemed high to me. The article claimed the database was in use by only 9 professional gamblers. I'd like to see some performance data on their bets.
The minus one must be for not seeing two fallacies and a bias in such a pretty package. Oh well, can't win em all.