Wisdom that is hard to execute isn't really wisdom. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The story of the wheel also illustrates the point of this chapter: both governments and universities have done very, very little for innovation and discovery, precisely because, in addition to their blinding rationalism, they look for the complicated, the lurid, the newsworthy, the narrated, the scientistic, and the grandiose, rarely for the wheel on the suitcase. Simplicity, I realized, does not lead to laurels.

Some people are only funny when they try to be serious.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.