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p.382-3 "The calculation of utility and the resolution of social disputes through civilized debate are behavioral utopias, not descriptions of what we are....The concept of Homo sensus sapiens allows us to realize that we are at a point somewhere between overconfidence in our rational capacities and submission to our instincts."

A "time span of discretion" is "the length of the longest task an individual can successfully undertake."

p. 369 "...effective organizations were comprised of workers of differing time spans of discretion, each working at a level of natural comfort. If a worker's job was beyond his natural time span of discretion, he would fail. If it was less, he would be insufficiently challenged and thus unhappy."

"You can show that something is definitely dangerous but not that it's definitely safe"

p. 227 "...the longer a system persists, the likelier it is that an event twice as large as all previous ones are coming."

p. 201 "...keystone consumers to be a specific group of humans that structures a market for a particular resource."

p. 129 "Two techniques seem promising: varying what you learn and varying where you learn it."