Bureaucracy is a construction designed to maximize the distance between a decision-maker and the risks of the decision. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The information-rich Dark Ages: in 2010, 600,000 books were published, just in English, with few memorable quotes. Circa AD zero, a handful of books were written. In spite of the few that survived, there are loads of quotes.

It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life — with the ironic result of making the world a lot more unpredictable, as if the goddesses of chance wanted to have the last word.

Silence is only informational if you can speak skillfully.