Bojan Tunguz

“Absolutely nothing useful is realized when one person who holds that there is a 0 percent probability of something argues against another person who holds that the probability is 100 percent.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“Hence arises the belief that traditional culture, which is always based on particular connections, identities, and meanings, is intrinsically oppressive; that “essentialism,” the belief that things have a particular nature and significance, is ignorance and bigotry; and that “discrimination”, treating one connection as more fitting than another for any non-technological reason, is irrational and wrong.”
― James Kalb, Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It

“Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.”
― M.R. Graham, In the Shadow of the Mountains

“No great power can treat foreign policy as a spectator sport and hope to remain a great power.”
― Bret Stephens, America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder