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“Manmade, complex systems [e.g., construction projects] tend to develop cascades and runaway chains of reactions that decrease or even eliminate predictability and cause outsized events…so, the modern world may be increasing in technological knowledge, but, paradoxically, it is making things a lot more unpredictable.”

Source Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile (2012)

“Problems seem to arise naturally on their own, while solutions always require our attention, energy, and effort.”

Source James Clear, author
* Source Chaos (2011) by James Gleick, in reference to Arcadia (1993) by Tom Stoppard