But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

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)

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.