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{{a|maxim|}}Life is messy and intractable, and it will defy your easy attempts to formularise it. Eighty percent of it will meet all your criteria. The other twenty will bugger your plans up. so: | {{a|maxim|}}Life is messy and intractable, and it will defy your easy attempts to formularise it. Eighty percent of it will meet all your criteria. The other twenty will bugger your plans up. so: | ||
Beware the [[fat tail]]. <br> | Beware the [[fat tail]]. <br> | ||
Remember ''[[The Dead | Remember ''[[The Dead Poets’ Society]]''. <br> | ||
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Life is messy and intractable, and it will defy your easy attempts to formularise it. Eighty percent of it will meet all your criteria. The other twenty will bugger your plans up. so:
Beware the fat tail.
Remember The Dead Poets’ Society.
KEATING: Gentlemen, open your text to page twenty-one of the introduction. Mr. Perry, will you read the opening paragraph of the preface, entitled “Understanding Poetry”?
KEATING: Excrement. That’s what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard. We’re not laying pipe, we’re talking about poetry. |