Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because "it's my job."

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

Only the autodidacts are free.

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

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.