Vilfredo Pareto Quotes
Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
Citations
Pareto, Vilfredo. Quoted in Pólya, George. Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Volume 1: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics. Princeton University Press, 1954, p. 116.
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Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was an Italian civil engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices. He was also responsible for popularising the use of the term "elite" in social analysis.