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.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.