The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

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

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)

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.