God created Monte Carlo and similar places so extremely rich people would come experience extreme envy. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don’t talk about “progress” in terms of longevity, safety, or comfort before comparing zoo animals to those in the wilderness.

Convincing - and confident - disciplines, say, physics, tend to use little statistical backup, while political science and economics, which have never produced anything of note, are full of elaborate statistics and statistical “evidence” (and you know that once you remove the smoke, the evidence is not evidence).

This is one of the many reasons that journalism may be the greatest plague we face today as the world becomes more and more complicated and our minds are trained for more and more simplification.