Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

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

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

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