Robert

“You need a story to displace a story.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.”
― Lawrence M Krauss

“A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss

“. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating snowballs and arbitrary and unpredictable planet-wide winner-take-all effects.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable