I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .