aphorisms.

It is wiser to place trust in those with the will to do no evil than those with the will to do good. - Dee Hock

I lean on stats like a drunken man leans on a lamp post, not for illumination but just for support - Navjot Singh Siddhu

Those who commit to nothing are distracted by everything.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

-David Ogilvy

The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people. - Shaan Puri

In America, intelligent people go to technology, curious people to science, creative people to the arts, greedy people to finance, and idiots go to work for the State Department. - Taleb.

too much structure and we lose meaning, too much freedom and we tip into floundering.