One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need i… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Under opacity, incomplete information, and partial understanding, much of what we don't understand is labeled "irrational".

How do you innovate? First, try to get in trouble. I mean serious, but not terminal, trouble. I hold — it is beyond speculation, rather a conviction — that innovation and sophistication spark from initial situations of necessity, in ways that go far beyond the satisfaction of such necessity (from the unintended side effects of, say, an initial invention or attempt at invention).

It is as hard to fake indifference when you are interested as it is to fake interest when you are indifferent.