“If you can get your work life to where you enjoy half of it, that is amazing. Very few people ever achieve that.” - Bezos

“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

“Young brains are designed to explore; old brains are designed to exploit.” – Alison Gopnik

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

“Psychology is a theory of human behavior. Philosophy is an ideal of human behavior. History is a record of human behavior.” – Will Durant

“Risk means more things can happen than will happen.” - Elroy DimsonGall’s Law: “A complex system that works invariably evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.”

“Everything feels unprecedented when you haven’t engaged with history.” – Kelly Hayes

“If something looks irrational – and has been so for a long time – odds are you have a wrong definition of rationality.” – Taleb

“The most surprising thing I found about business was the large concern for finance and low concern for service.” – Henry Ford