History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship, upon them. Explanations bind facts together. They make them all the more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding.

Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .