The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.