Those who think religion is about “belief” don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

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.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous weeks newspapers.