A reminder that the job of the government is to deliver Peace and Prosperity. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.

Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful.

Clearly, an open mind is a necessity when dealing with randomness. Popper believed that any idea of Utopia is necessarily closed owing to the fact that it chokes its own refutations. The simple notion of a good model for society that cannot be left open for falsification is totalitarian. I learned from Popper, in addition to the difference between an open and a closed society, that between an open and a closed mind.