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

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

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

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

What kills me makes others stronger.

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