We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

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

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.