Time & Perspective Quote by Adam Osborne

Osborne frames pragmatism as a moral posture, not just a method. "I take what I see work" is the startup-world creed before "startup world" had fully calcified into a brand: results first, ideology second. The line reads like a quiet rebuke to armchair certainty. He’s not worshipping Science-as-capital-S; he’s insisting on the unglamorous discipline of updating your beliefs when reality refuses to cooperate.

The clever move is how he collapses the distance between lab thinking and everyday decision-making. By calling it a "scientific principle" and then defining it as "believing nothing", he yanks the reader away from comforting narratives. The subtext is anti-dogma: expertise is valuable, but certainty is suspicious. Evidence is "best available at the present time" - a built-in expiration date. That phrase smuggles in humility while still defending decisiveness: you act now, using what you’ve got, without pretending your conclusion is eternal.

Context matters: Osborne lived through the era when personal computing went from hobbyist tinkering to venture-fueled industry, where tools, standards, and winners changed fast. In that environment, clinging to yesterday’s "truth" could be a career-ending mistake. His final clause, "new evidence will appear tomorrow", lands like a warning and a promise. It’s an ethic of continuous revision - the rare worldview that treats being wrong not as shame, but as the price of staying honest.