It is very difficult to argue with salaried people that the simple can be important and the important can be simple. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Religion isn’t so much about telling man that there is one God as about preventing man from thinking that he is God.

I repeat that we are explanation-seeking animals who tend to think that everything has an identifiable cause and grab the most apparent one as the explanation. Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, no even a spectrum of possible explanations.

When you are employed, hence dependent on other people’s judgment, looking busy can help you claim responsibility for the results in a random environment. The appearance of busyness reinforces the perception of causality, of the link between results and one’s role in them.