People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.
The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
You find peace by coming to terms with what you don’t know.
Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
Ideas come and go, stories stay.
You need a story to displace a story.
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
If you don’t feel that you haven’t read enough, you haven’t read enough.
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology.
The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither.
Bankers, they’re not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.
If you’re going to fail, you’d rather fail early than fail late in general.