If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

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.

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.