| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 44766ae | Things work out the way they're meant to | romance titanic | Danielle Steel | |
| cf05af6 | The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety. | titanic technology | Deborah Hopkinson | |
| 419073e | "It would appear to a quoting dilettante--i.e., one of those writers and scholars who fill up their texts with phrases from some dead authority--that, as phrased by Hobbes, "from like antecedents flow like consequents." Those who believe in the unconditional benefits of past experience should consider this pearl of wisdom allegedly voiced by a famous ship's captain: | learning-from-experiences logical-fallacy predictions titanic | Nicholas Nassim Taleb |