"The effect becomes especially clear on a bigger scale: **the government of [[New South Wales]], being acutely conscious that big construction projects tend to overrun, allowed a seemingly ample four years for the building of the [[Sydney Opera House]]—but it ended up taking fourteen, at a cost of more than 1,400 percent of the original budget**.) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[Sydney]], [[teaching-anecdotes]], [[hofstadter-law]], [[planning-fallacy]], [[frugality]], [[self-control]] **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]