Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.