When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.