A lot of what we call signal is noise. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

More data—such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street—can make you miss the big truck.

Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.

[T]he worst thing one can do to feel one knows things a bit deeper is to try to go into them a bit deeper.