A... vicious effect of... is that those that are good at predicting the past... think of themselves as good at predicting the future... [W]e live in … - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can.

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter — it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

Thursday Wisdom: "If someone's insults' bother you; it is evidence that you respect him."