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

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.

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

The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.

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

Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.