The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

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

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .