The process of discovery (or innovation, or technological progress) itself depends on antifragile tinkering, aggressive risk bearing rather than form… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

"It was a different feeling: it is hard to focus on a conversation, especially when it is mathematical, when you have just personally earned several hundreds of times the annual salary of the researcher trying to tell you that you are "wrong," by betting against his representation of the world."

Economists are like soldiers selected and trained for only rituals and parades. But they are very good with rituals and parades.