Too many rappers, athletes and actors But not enough nigga's in NASA - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The opposite of success isn't failure; it is name dropping.

Some people do not know their own interest — just consider addicts, workaholics, people trapped in a bad relationship, people who support large government, the press, book reviewers, or respectable bureaucrats, all of whom for some mysterious reason act against their own interest.

You cannot do statistics without logic. Otherwise you become a data fraud, or, worse, an economist.