“Practitioners are usually too busy practitioning to write books, articles, papers, speeches, equations, theories and get honored by Highly Constipated and Honorable Members of Academies).”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com
“I once described Washington as a doer surrounded by thinkers. He knew how to make the thinkers work for him, and only a truly superb politician and leader is able to do that.”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“I would not for one moment be understood as objecting to criticism or failing to appreciate the importance….But it behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things, and not by t…”— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.com