Never allow oneself to have an opinion on anything when you don't know the other side's arguments better than they do. - Charlie Munger

When Warren lectures at business schools, he says, “I could improve your ultimate financial welfare by giving you a ticket with only 20 slots in it so that you had 20 punches, representing all the investments that you got to make in a lifetime. And once you’d punched through the card, you couldn’t make any more investments at all.” He says, “Under those rules, you’d really think carefully about what you did, and you’d be forced to load up on what you’d really thought about. So you’d do so much better.

First (prescription for misery), be unreliable. Do not faithfully do what you have engaged to do. If you will only master this one habit, you will more that counterbalance the combined effect of all your virtues, howsoever great. If you like being distrusted and excluded from the best human contribution and company, this prescription is for you. Master this one habit, and you will always play the role of the hare in the fable, except that instead of being outrun by the one fine turtle, you will be outrun by hordes and hordes of mediocre turtles and even some mediocre turtles on crutches.

reality evoked by the Shavian character who said, “In the last analysis, every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.