The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship, upon them. Explanations bind facts together. They make them all the more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding.

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.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

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.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing