What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes (literally) buried. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Every dollar made by a former politician or civil servant thanks to the fame and connections imparted by the office belongs to the taxpayer. " PRINCIPIA POLITICA

It takes some humanity to feel sympathy for those less fortunate than us; but it takes honor to avoid envying those who are much luckier.

bounded rationality: we cannot possibly measure and assess everything as if we were a computer; we therefore produce, under evolutionary pressures, some shortcuts and distortions. Our knowledge of the world is fundamentally incomplete, so we need to avoid getting into unanticipated trouble. And even if our knowledge of the world were complete, it would still be computationally near-impossible to produce a precise, unbiased understanding of reality.