The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patentl...
True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing.
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
From such examples, I derived the rule that what is called healthy is generally unhealthy, just as social networks are antisocial, and the knowledge-based economy is typically ignorant.
Rewriting the history of technology. How, in science, history is rewritten by the losers and how I saw it in my own business and how we can generalize. Does knowledge of biology hurt medicine? Hiding...
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone
Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
Further, the random element in trial and error is not quite random, if it is carried out rationally, using error as a source of information. If every trial provides you with information about what doe...
We end up populating what we call the intelligentsia with people who are delusional, literally mentally deranged, simply because they never have to pay for the consequences of their actions, repeating...
In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.
Further, my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of informa...
Frédéric Dard, Libanius Antiochus, Michael Oakeshott, John Gray, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ibn Battuta, Saadia Gaon, or Joseph de Maistre; he
The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither.