The pleasure of a new discovery is only exceeded by the satisfaction of making a recommendation

The universe is a kinetic watch so time only keeps going if we’re on the move making Zeno’s paradox of motion just a way of reassuring ourselves

Ours is a culture of low tolerance masquerading as a culture of low risk tolerance

I’m getting much better at recognizing my wife’s subtle hi… like when she recently put mosquit… over her side of the bed

The cogito may be airtight but its reverse– I am, therefore I think– is less certain

Beware the self-loathing salesman who loves what he does– If you buy what he’s selling then you bought it because you broke it

Everyone has a shoe size and a city size– I wear an 11 and a half and a 600,000

People are only willing to wait and see when they already know what they are looking for

There was always an urn on the man… made from terra cotta Little then did I know it was for the remains of the persona non gra…

Many people think of life as a gift but to me it’s more like

A rational actor knows a thing or… First, he knows that by definition a solution solves a problem Second, he knows that

It didn’t matter that I’d been scrupulously carbon neutral; my interlocutors persisted until I realized that the desire to make… had left a vast carbon footprint o…

When people ask me How are you doing? I tell them That’s above my pay grade

People don’t have beliefs, they ha… beliefs are just how we relate to… More simply: I am a relationship to desire

Nietzsche was right– “Life itself is will to power” But so was Plato– “The measure of a man is what he d… As was Lord Acton–