Over the past week I’ve been reading Nate Silver’s book, “The Signal and the Noise, Why So Many Predictions Fail, but Some Don’t“.  Early on, he includes this completely on-point quote that he attributes to the great author Douglas Adams:

“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that can not possibly go wrong is that when a thing that can not possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair”.

I dedicate this post to my friends at One Ashburton Place.