Quotes from the book "System Error"
Quotes from the book "System Error". There are decades when nothing happens—and weeks where decades happen. System Error explores what breaks when fast-moving technology outpaces slow-moving institutions. When metrics become goals, and optimization replaces wisdom, systems fail quietly at scale. Progress needs better rules—not just better leaders. “There are decades when nothing happens, and then there are weeks where decades happen.” History doesn’t move linearly—it accelerates suddenly, often without warning. “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” Governance exists not because humans are perfect, but precisely because we are not. “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” The most meaningful outcomes often resist neat quantification. The metric becomes the goal, and the means justify the end. This is Goodhart’s Law : when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. To optimize for scienc...