What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

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)

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.