“If you’re never wrong …

… you’re never interesting.”

–Felix Salmon

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About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.
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2 Responses to “If you’re never wrong …

  1. Release's avatar Release says:

    Well, you just used this as an argument against me, so, you know: bias. But I still think I should say this: the reason this might be true is that if you say a lot of things or more bold things than boring, you increase the odds of being interesting on occasion. But one of the ways of being really interesting is being spectacularly wrong. Just saying.

  2. F. E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar enrique says:

    Agreed: the more bold, daring, and interesting one’s statements are, the more likely one is to be wrong (is this, however, a linear relationship, or an exponential one?). But at the same, the less likely one is willing to be wrong, the less likely one is to make a great discovery or propose a new idea.

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