A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it