Remember that you are a Black Swan.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.

What I learned on my own I still remember.

Only the autodidacts are free.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of absence.

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

Only the autodidacts are free.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal.

The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing.