Oscar Wilde

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Thomas V. Morris (author of The Art of Achievement

Our choices are always broader than our past. The best adventures in life need to be chosen, not from a predetermined menu based on what we’ve done already, but rather out of our deepest sense of who we are and how we can contribute to the world.

Rudy Ruggles

Experience enables people to understand and internalize ideas.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

A good architect has to finish three or four successful systems before he can begin to identify those parts of his experience that are particular and not generalizable.

Corollary: You can’t generalize from a sample of one.

Gary Klein

Experienced decision makers see a different world than novices do, and what they see tells them what they should do. Ultimately, intuition is all about perception. The formal rules of decision making are almost incidental.