Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.