A mathematician starts with a problem and creates a solution; a consultant starts by offering a solution and creates a problem. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

This is hard to accept in the age of the Internet. It has been very hard for me to explain that the more data you get, the less you know what’s going on, and the more iatrogenics you will cause. People are still under the illusion that “science” means more data.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors though never the same error more than onceis more reliable than someone who has never made any.