Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.

The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.