I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.

Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.