My principle activity is to tease those who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[B]ecoming more rational, or not feeling the emotions of social slights, is not part of the human race... not with our current biology. There is no solace to be found from reasoning...

More data — such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street — can make you miss the big truck.

Transportation didnt get safer just because people learn from errors, but because the system does. The experience of the system is different from that of individuals; it is grounded in filtering.