The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke.

In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.

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The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.

Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.