Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.