Dan Ferris on central banking

People actually believe that a few numbskulls with advanced degrees and finance pedigrees can control and manipulate a hopelessly complex 20 trillion dollar economy from the top down with these simple levers of moving interest rates around, printing money, buying securities.  It's ridiculous.

~ Dan Ferris, "When to Buy and When to Sell," Stansberry Investor Hour, 10:30 mark, November 25, 2020

Katniss Everdeen on centralized systems

It must be a fragile system if it can be brought down by just a few berries.

~ Katniss Everdeen, visit from President Snow in Catching Fire

Nassim Taleb on Platonicity

Medieval man was a cog in a wheel he did not understand; modern man is a cog in a complicated system he thinks he understands.

~ Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes, p. 57