“The complex world, the notion of 'cause' itself is suspect; it is either nearly impossible to detect or not really defined—another reason to ignore newspapers, with their constant supply of causes for things.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com
“One of the abiding problems of explanation is that it splits issues analytically in order to clarify them, and in the process often impoverishes or denatures the issues, depriving them of some of their full and essential depth.”— Walter Ong, amazon.com