"Another anecdote concerns a ski resort in the Lebanon. The owner of the ski resort, deploring lack of snow, deposited at a shrine the Virgin Mary a $100 wishing for snow. Snow came, with such abundance, and avalanches, with people stuck in the cars, and the resort was forced to close, prompting the owner to quip ‘I should have only given $25.’"
— “Why We Don’t Know What We Talk About When We Talk About Probability,” Nassim N. Taleb, Jan 2012
(Source: fooledbyrandomness.com)
