We ingest probiotics because we don't eat enough dirt anymore. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This book is the synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense practitioner of uncertainty who spent his professional life trying to resist being fooled by randomness and trick the emotions associated with probabilistic outcomes and, on the other, the aesthetically obsessed, literature-loving human being willing to be fooled by any form of nonsense that is polished, refined, original, and tasteful. I am not capable of avoiding being the fool of randomness; what I can do is confine it to where it brings some aesthetic gratification.

We invented language to be vague, if you can sort of see what I mean.

The rules you explain are less convincing that the ones you don't explain- or have to explain.