I just discovered that I had this quote, which expresses what I was
trying to express on eros-arch this week much better and in far fewer
words:
When you go to achieve some new great thing, it is really helpful to
only try to achieve *one* amazing thing at a time. If you try to
do two or three, then the product of narrow probabilities bites you
in the ass, and your chances of success dwindle to insignificance.
--
<kragen@pobox.com> Kragen Sitaker <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
The Internet stock bubble didn't burst on 1999-11-08. Hurrah!
<URL:http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/bubble.html>
The power didn't go out on 2000-01-01 either. :)