"N years of experience" requirements are unnecessary gatekeeping. Smart people can pick up anything quickly, and diverse perspectives are valuable.

When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals!

One basic rule of life is that everything is easy with the proper tools, and nearly impossible without them.

The future was better in the past.

Too often, ideas meant to yield a certain practice are instead transported into the academy, as fare for 'enriching' a curriculum and, of course, generating jobs for the growing professoriat.

How come it is easier for us to imagine the end of all life on earth than to imagine a modest change in our economic order?

No SciFi author foresaw this: we are building clans around languages we speak to the Machine.

There is a difference between a consumer—who passively receives the information that they are spoon fed—and a citizen—who engages with society, asks questions, does research, and works towards making a difference in their neighborhood, city, and country.

The most common beginning of disaster was a sense of security.

As I have taught you, persuasion can be ranked like this:

1. Identity (best)
2. Analogy (okay)
3. Reason (useless)

Being smart does not mean being useful. Or employable.

Behavioral economics tells us that we quickly get used to big houses but we never get used to commuting. So when you have a choice, go for the smaller house closer to work.

We live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there’s remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost. But when you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist people who are suffering, then suddenly we come very cost-conscious.

Zombie apocalypses became trendy when my generation realized it was our best-case scenario for retirement.

Unquestioning submission to a single will is absolutely necessary for the success of labour processes that are based on large-scale machine industry: today the Revolution demands, in the interests of socialism, that the masses unquestioningly obey the single will of the leaders of the labour process.

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

I went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.

A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco.

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.