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

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

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.

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.