If we are the only animal with a sense of justice, it would clearly be because we also are about the only animal with a sense of cruelty. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible results — or those heroes who focus on process rather than results.

there is something in nature you don’t understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding.

Further, being fooled by randomness is that in most circumstances fraught with a high degree of randomness, one cannot really tell if a successful person has skills, or if a person with skills will succeed — but we can pretty much predict the negative, that a person totally devoid of skills will eventually fail.