Go For The Optionality Quotes & Sayings

There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen. — L.M. Montgomery

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My job is to make sure we keep performing. — Mats Sundin

The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts. — Micky Dolenz

They had all the means to develop a spinning machine, but "nobody tried" - another example of knowledge hampering optionality. They probably needed someone like Steve Jobs - blessed with an absence of college education and the right aggressiveness of temperament - to take the elements to their natural conclusion. As we will see in the next section, it is precisely this type of uninhibited doer who made the Industrial Revolution happen. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To be told, for the first time, in this place. As the Judge — Wilkie Collins

At no point does anyone in the chain know what to do with money in the real economy. But in an indefinite world, people actually prefer unlimited optionality; money is more valuable than anything you could possibly do with it. Only in a definite future is money a means to an end, no the end itself- — Peter Thiel

If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes. — Stephan Pastis