This is one of the many reasons that journalism may be the greatest plague we face today as the world becomes more and more complicated and our minds… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For a free person, the optimal - most opportunistic - route between two points should never be the shortest one.

Wittgenstein's ruler: "Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler." (page 224)

God made mathematics so you can tell me where I am wrong; the fragility of a derivation is transparent for all to see. Formalism allows the slightest nonsense to show. Some econs/psychs produce obscure equations to hide nonsense. They get caught: you can debunk using math!