Quips from N. Nicholas Taleb's
Bed of Procrustes selected for relevance to ACW literature:
What I learned on my own, I still remember.
Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.
Many are so unoriginal they study history to find mistakes to repeat.
Corollary to Moore's Law: every ten years, collective wisdom degrades by half.
... knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from people's heads.
Avoid calling heroes those who had no other choice.
The ancients knew very well that the only way to understand events was to cause them.
(Photo from the Guardian.)
Quips from N. Nicholas Taleb's Bed of Procrustes selected for relevance to ACW literature: 
