You view the world from <i>within</i> a model. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wisdom isn't about understanding things (&amp; people); it is knowing what they can do to you.

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds....

Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don’t count — there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book, or the equivalent of losing points in a soccer game, and this absence of negative domain for book sales provides the author with a measure of optionality.