My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

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