Unknown

"The most important part of the story is the piece of it you don't know."

Barbara Kingsolver
The Lacuna

The cost

" Fundamentally, a decision to do one thing implies a decision not to do something else."

Analysis for Public Decisions, E.S. Quade p 118

[Book] The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"Does it trouble you," he inquired, "to make your living by disrupting the lives of others?" "We just value," I replied. "We do not decide whether to buy or to sell, or indeed what happens to a company after we have valued it." He nodded; he lit a cigarette and took a sip from his glass of wine. Then he asked, "Have you heard of the janissaries?" "No," I said. "They were Christian boys," he explained, "captured by the Ottomans and trained to be soldiers in a Muslim army, at that time the greatest army in the world. They were ferocious and utterly loyal: they had fought to erase their own civilizations, so they had nothing else to turn to."

- The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, p 151