Information is bad for knowledge.

An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

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

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.