xanderman:“It could all depend on the consequences. When do you risk disaster rather than settle for mediocrity? When the consequences are worth it. Of course our predictive powers are usually less than Carnac the Magnificent.”
Kropotkin: What you call consequences, I called cost. It is the same
thing. Sometimes everything works out exactly as you plan and
still it fails because sometimes what we want is not what we need.
I believe it was Goethe who said, “be careful of what you ask for,
because you might get it”. Never truer words were spoken.
Kropotkin