People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To understand the future, you do not need technoautistic jargon, obsession with “killer apps,” these sort of things. You just need the following: some respect for the past, some curiosity about the historical record, a hunger for the wisdom of the elders, and a grasp of the notion of “heuristics,” these often unwritten rules of thumb that are so determining of survival. In other words, you will be forced to give weight to things that have been around, things that have survived.

"Mediocre minds are outraged by small insults but passive, subdued, and silent in front of very large ones. " - From Bed of Procrustes.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.