As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone