Makes You Think

“Everyone encourages you to grow up to the point where you can discount your own bad moods. Few encourage you to continue to the point where you can discount society’s bad moods.” – Paul Graham

“The cure for imposter syndrome is to realize that all the other people are just convincing imposters, too.” – Alison Gopnik

“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” -Twain

“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” – Amos Tversky

“I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist.” - Hans Rosling

“The dead outnumber the living 14 to 1, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril.” – Niall Ferguson

“All behavior makes sense with enough information.” – My brother in law, a social worker

“Half the distinguishing qualities of the eminent are actually disadvantages.” – Paul Graham

“History as usually written is quite different from history as usually lived. The historian records the exceptional because it is interesting.” – Will Durant

“It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.” —Richard Cavett