You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

Trying to be able to have, let's say, more than three partners was absolutely impossible, at least for my own relationships.

Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply treat life as a psychedelic trip through a series of novel sensations.

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

There's lots and lots of guys out there. The question is trying to find the right one.