Can omniscient God, who
Knows the future, find
The omnipotence to
Change His future mind?

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Instagram wants de-contextualized lifestyle porn. It’s probably the most bland and harmless of the majors, so long as you don’t get addicted to micro-affirmations.

Some things are like that—they strike you as repugnant for instinctive reasons, probably having to do with your culture and the way you were raised. The French word “gauche” comes to mind, but I preferred the Hebrew word “treyf.” Literally, it means not kosher, but I also use it to describe things like cars, bars, strip clubs, guns, dogs, rock-n-roll, and football games. Things that are treyf, you avoid, not because you hate them per se, but because in avoiding them you keep yourself from becoming like the people you hate.

If you don’t understand the basics of a subject, it’s easy to form conclusions that seem logical, but these same conclusions seem silly to those who have a deeper understanding of a subject.

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Čistim, čistim, čistim.
Bacim metlu, pa mislim.
Mislim, mislim, mislim. 
Uzmem metlu, pa čistim.

After every outage the illusion is that during the postmortem analysis, we gain some insight on how to prevent new outages. This happens only in the most trivial cases; otherwise different incidents are very different, and the only true lesson is to lower the infra complexity.

When I was young, people would say to me: 'Wait until you're 50; then you'll see.'

I am 50 now. I haven't seen anything.

Negotiations: “If you aren’t at the table, you are on the menu".

Nema svetla, Mane. U ovoj zemlji gore samo kandila u crkvama.

That if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.

Ne dozvolite detetu normalnu muziku niti književnost. Biće mu muka od onoga što ga okružuje. Ja već posle Servantesa nisam mogao, bez suza, da gledam ovo đubre oko nas. Dajte mu nešto lagano, optimistično, kako bi dete moglo da postane javni tužilac ili potpredsednica Vlade.

Iluzija je da rat počinje i završava se nekim datumom. Upravo suprotno, posledice rata komplikuju stvarnost u mnogo čemu, dugo nakon što pucnji utihnu. Potrebni su izuzetna volja, rešenost, plan i program nekoliko generacija ne bi li rat i konačno bio okončan. To je moja misao po tom pitanju. Lik Hinkemana, povratnika iz Prvog svetskog rata, u tom pogledu je jedna Tolerova metafora kojom uator opisuje, uslovno rečeno, atrofirano telo celokupne nacije. Ono što je bio moj motiv i razlog rada na "Hinkemanu" jeste uverenje da živim upravo u takvom okruženju, društvu i zemlji. Zemlji čija je društvena patologija posledica delovanja rata ili ratova, za koje nikad nije bilo snage da se jednom zauvek završe.

As harmony makes small things grow, discord brings the greatest to ruin.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

You would have to have no love whatever for your country, you would have to be hostile to it, to shoot the pride of the nation - its concentrated knowledge, energy and talent! And wasn't it exactly the same...in the case of Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov?

Language is largely made to show-off, gossip, confuse people, delude them, charm them, seduce them, scare them, and exploit them. And, as a side effect, convey information. Just a side effect, you fools.