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Aidas Petryla
Aidas Petryla

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On questions that are impossible to answer

For the managers who want to know precisely the time estimations and costs,
For the bosses, who want to be sure the product or project will work,
For parents, who want to be certain about their children's choices,
For everybody else, who wants to know everything.

It's not that some questions are hard to answer.

Some of them are impossible to answer.

Heisenberg discovered that we can't know everything about the real world.
Gödel proved that some statements in math can't be proved.

What makes us think that we (or even worse - others) should be capable of saying something about this non-scientific, chaotically empirical, ever-changing social hotchpotch for sure?

After You destroy the fundamentals of physics, math, and logic created by the greatest minds ever lived, we can continue the conversation.

Meanwhile, let's drop that wishful thinking, quit the useless bureaucracy, and start appreciating the people we're working with.

Only after this law of nature is understood can we can start doing miracles.

Feasible, real life miracles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems

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