"If you make a plan, God laughs. If you make two plans, God smiles"
This made me laugh with God. 
i found this in a concluding chapter of Cass Sunstein's "Worst-Case Scenario" book, which explains how choice theory should approach disasters and irreversible events.
o well, if you are extremely religious, i think, this (and James L. Kugel's "How to Read the Bible") should calm you
I can give off the laminated floor; the vertical slide or the auning window; transfer the plate rack; whatever, to reconcile our differences; to keep you; to love you.
Why does history repeat itself? Why do we commit redundant mistakes even when our forefathers already told us so? Why were we continuosly hooked in vices when we already know its hazards?
Why? Ask your best teacher. Sir Experience.
He is responsible for all these repeats because he unwisely teaches us "to experience" to learn. "Be in the moment to know," he adds without knowing the recurring repercussions.
Our best teacher is after all both lovable fool and competent jerk - one who doesnt know much but is a delight and who knows a lot but is unpleasant.
The learning that Sir Experience shares with us is the same ignorance that make us repeat history and commit the same mistakes.
