You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.