The best test of robustness to reputational damage is your emotional state (fear, joy, boredom) when you get an email from a journalist. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler. The less you trust a ruler's reliability (in probability called the prior), the more information you are getting about the ruler and the less about the table.

Never rid anyone of an illusion unless you can replace it in his mind with another illusion.

A Kafkaesque World. With the inquisition spirit & the criminalization of politics, you will soon wake up every morning with the question: "Which rule I didn't know existed did I violate yesterday?"