Tim Harford Quotes

In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all physical, biological and social systems that survive and thrive.... But let’s take that one step forward... the systems just described are ... constantly evolving. This suggests another design principle: ... design for evolution rather than creating a static design optimizing for the present.

I am always trying to learn and adapt.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

Our philosophy doesn't change. We're always competing. But the ways to approach it and the ways to make that up and make it available to our players, there's no end to that. That's why the thought is that you're either competing or you're not, and that's why I'm learning and searching and trying to transfer information to our coaches and to our players.

I just find that each year I try something new. You can't fight the march of time. To balance that out, each year you should develop one more good habit. It levels the playing field.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.

I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.

All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

I just try to just roll with the punches. I mean, once the team pretty much starts closing out, just try to get in attack mode, and at the same time, try to find my teammates. It's kind of hard, hitting the shots I was hitting, to try and pass the ball, but you've got to figure out a way.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Get up every day and try a little harder than the day before.

If you think you've stopped learning, you're going to get lapped.

There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play.

I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.

If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.