henry_flower | 'You can’t tell the quality of the decision you’re making by the outcome that will be produced.

'You can’t tell the quality of the decision you’re making by the outcome that will be produced. Or to put it in another way, you can’t tell by the outcome whether you’ve made a good decision.

So you can have good decisions having bad outcomes or good outcomes, and bad decisions having good outcomes or bad outcomes. And it’s just a logical mistake to say I got the good outcome, I must have made a good decision.'

-- Ronald A. Howard

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