Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

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

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.