I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.

If 'other people have experiences incorrectly' is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell you they hate the way you're experiencing your life at just the moment you've found something you want to remember.

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.