The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

-- Thomas Edison

No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

-- Carl von Clausewitz

He who plans more, wins. He who plans less, loses.

-- Mōri Motonari

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

-- Friedrich Hayek

With the preparation of maps, I found the way to the Moluccas by the west.

-- Ferdinand Magellan

Adventure is just bad planning.

-- Roald Amundsen