Socialism, def: a political system where decisions are made by people with advanced degrees in social "science". - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Pharmaceutical companies are better at inventing diseases that match existing drugs, rather than inventing drugs to match existing diseases.

[T]he epic poet did not judge heroes by the result... their fate depended on totally external forces... Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

awareness of a problem does not mean much — particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.