Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

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

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears