Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.

Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.