You need a story to displace a story.

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

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

What kills me makes others stronger.

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

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.