When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

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 opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

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)

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.