Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people a….

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle….

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window..

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all..

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was..

The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them..

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or in….

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it..

That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that goo….

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake..

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If….

The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment l….

We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spr….

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me is the basic message of eve….

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be — or to be indistinguishable from — sel….

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find some….

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness ….

Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same..

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code..

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time..

It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for..