Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

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

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference