Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
“Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!”
“I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.”