“The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)”

“...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.”

“My life would nevercontain a convenient, pain-saving planwhen it could stretch a problem out intoan endless agony of uncertainty andtorture.”

“We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.”

“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”

“Before I had kids, I always found it funny how people would talk about their children like they were the cutest things on the planet and how every little thing they did was endlessly fascinating. Now that I've had kids, I can say with certainty that, my children really are the cutest things on this planet and every little thing they do is endlessly fascinating...”