There is nothing more hideous than excessive refinement (in food, dress, lifestyle, etc.) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

Love without sacrifice is like theft.

[A]ge is beauty. ...[M]y instinct is to value distilled thought over newer thinking, regardless of its apparent sophistication—another reason to accumulate the hoary volumes by my bedside... For an idea to have survived so many cycles is indicative of its relative fitness. Noise, at least some noise, was filtered out. ...[P]rogress means that some new information is better than past information, not that the average of new information will supplant past information...