What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.