Remember that you are a Black Swan.
Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.