Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum
We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
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.