From The Dip:
A woodpecker can peck twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can peck twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.
From The Dip:
A woodpecker can peck twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can peck twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.
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Love this quote…
Ah. And the moral of the story is how few people understand probability.