“Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.” PeopleHumansDoeTogetherIndividualBeliefGivenSinCreativeEnvironmentGroupsConditionsHuman NatureOvercomingErrorsOptimisticInevitableWorking TogetherMutualImperfectHuman ConditionRegulationMultitudesRestraintBe CreativeConstructiveMutual RespectTrusting People Author:Peter Senge
“Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.” KnowsMenHumansLittlesSeemsLife IsOrderLossEffortProgressConditionsPeriodsMassErrorsDefeatDisasterRuinsTriumphIndifferenceDisorderHuman ConditionCatastropheMonstrousFelicityProdigies Book:Memoirs of Hadrian Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“Even better than good error messages is a careful design which prevents a problem from occurring in the first place. Either eliminate error-prone conditions or check for them and present users with a confirmation option before they commit to the action.” FirstsProblemActionConditionsDesignMessagesErrorsCarefulChecksCommitUsersConfirmation Author:Jakob Nielsen
“One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.” ThinkingHardRunningSportsGoalChangeChancePerfectStepsConditionsErrorsTinySatisfiedExtrasRealisticRacingMarginsVariablesSkisCool ThingsOne ChanceRealistic GoalsSki Racing Author:Ted Ligety
“The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.” MenEnoughGovernmentNaturalPowerfulEffortProgressConditionsConstantErrorsInvestingImprovementEvery ManAdministrationSpiteUniformsExtravagance Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations