aphorisms.
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.
Edward O. Wilson, debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009
You can choose which games to play, but not their rules.
In America, intelligent people go to technology, curious people to science, creative people to the arts, greedy people to finance, and idiots go to work for the State Department. - Taleb.
too much structure and we lose meaning, too much freedom and we tip into floundering.
thinking, my labour; writing, my portal; leading, my reward.
the perpetual quest for efficiency is a machine’s role; to pursue efficiency at all cost is to become a machine.
The secret is not to chase butterflies, but to take care of the garden so they'll come to you
a moral system valid for all is immoral.
people who want power shouldn’t be in power.