My dream — the solution — is that we would have a National Entrepreneur Day, with the following message: Most of you will fail, disrespected, impover… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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.

Fascism does not necessarily come from the nominal government, but from he who controls information.

It certainly takes bravery to remain skeptical; it takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confront oneself, to accept one's limitations — Scientists are seeing more and more evidence that we are specifically designed by mother nature to fool ourselves.