randomness in the end is just unknowledge. the world is opaque and appearances fool us - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The mediocre regret their words more than their silence; 􀀯ner men regret their silence more than their words; the magnificent has nothing to regret.

"Almost everything in social life is produced by rare but consequential shocks and jumps; all the while almost everything studied about social life focuses on the "normal," particularly with "bell curve" methods of inference that tell you close to nothing. Why? Because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty. Its nickname in this book is GIF, Great Intellectual Fraud."

If the Iliad survived, it is precisely because it is not summarizable.