Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

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

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

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.

If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.