You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely."

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.