There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!