The bad thing about being a world-class worrier was that being right was worse than being wrong. - Charles Sheffield

Idle wishing for circumstances different from what you had was a waste of time.

The leaders of the Legion of Argos were out-of-this-world mad. Rigid in outlook, intolerant of minor differences. In other centuries they would have led the Inquisition, tortured the heretics, burned the witches.

Decisions based on incomplete information are one thing, a fact of political life. Decisions made with no information are another.