Nietzsche’s ideas seem exeptionally well suited for the chess game, but he was describing the world. Chess has stood the test of Nietzschean thinking.
Bertrand Russel
Beware of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confession obtained under duress may not be admissible in the court of scientific opinion.
Stephen Stigler
Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Morpheus
What we need is not a skilled monetary driver of the economic vehicle continuously turning the steering wheel to adjust to the the unexpected irregularities of the route, but some means of keeping the monetary passenger who is in the back seat as ballast from occasionally leaning over and giving the steering wheel a jerk that threatens to send the car off the road.
Milton Friedman
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first an then seek to win.
Sun Tzu