Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

You need a story to displace a story.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

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