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

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

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

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.