Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[E]conomics is a narrative discipline, and explanations are easy to fit retrospectively. (page 257)

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

we tend to think that innovation comes from bureaucratic funding, through planning, or by putting people through a Harvard Business School class by one Highly Decorated Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (who never innovated anything) or hiring a consultant (who never innovated anything). This is a fallacy — note for now the disproportionate contribution of uneducated technicians and entrepreneurs to various technological leaps, from the Industrial Revolution to the emergence of Silicon Valley, and you will see what I mean.