I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

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.