“Your last recourse against randomness is how you act”
At the Times Online, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (which I always confuse–understandably, I think–with David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green) gives ten rules for life in a random world. (Link from Boing Boing)
“Your last recourse against randomness is how you act – if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.”