If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses