Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.