Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

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.

It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.