At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Memory is more of a self-serving dynamic revision machine: you remember the last time you remembered the event, and without realizing it, change the story at every subsequent remembrance.

Accept the rationality of time, never its fairness and morality.

This is hard to accept in the age of the Internet. It has been very hard for me to explain that the more data you get, the less you know what’s going on, and the more iatrogenics you will cause. People are still under the illusion that “science” means more data.