The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.