To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.
There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.
Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum
If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.
If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism