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.

You cannot reason a man out of what he never reasoned himself into.

When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Najjeftiniji oblik ponosa jest nacionalni ponos. On otkriva pomanjkanje individualnih kvaliteta pojednica, kojima bi se dotični mogao ponositi, jer inače ne bi trebao pribjeći onima koje dijeli s milijunima drugih. Onaj koji posjeduje osobne vrline, će najbolje prepoznati pogreške svoje vlastite nacije, jer mu je ona stalno pred očima. Ali svaki jadnik, koji ništa drugo na svijetu ne posjeduje, na što bi mogao biti ponosan, koristi ovo zadnje sredstvo, naciju kojoj pripada, da bi na nešto mogao biti ponosan. Kroz to se osjeća jačim i spreman je s puno zahvalnosti braniti rukama i nogama svaku njezinu pogrešku i glupost.

Two is one, one is none.

Navy Seals saying

Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher.

It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.