Rationalism crashes in the tails.

If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

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

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

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

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.