Notes and Quotes

A model, after all, is an abstract representation of some process.

You don't need to understand all the details of a system to know that it has failed.

Instead of searching for the truth, the score comes to embody it.

Truly, fortune's displeasure is but sluttish.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, goo and ill together.

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When self-control problems and mindless choosing are combined, the result is a series of bad outcomes for real people.

Our understanding of human behaviour can be improved by appreciating how people systematically go wrong.

In vino veritas.

Pereat mundus, fiat philosophia, fiat philosophus, fiam!

A married philosopher belongs in comedy, that is my proposition - and as for the exception Socrates - the malicious Socrates, it would seem, married ironically, just to demonstrate this proposition.

Placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription "I too was created by eternal love" - at any rate, there would be more justification for placing above the gateway to the Christian Paradise and its "eternal bliss" the inscription "I too was created by eternal hate" - provided a truth may be placed above the gateway to a lie!

How do you take advantage of someone's habits without letting them know you're studying every detail of their lives?

Every profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. The latter may hurt his vanity but the former his hear, his sympathy, which always says: "Alas, why do you want to have as hard a time as I did?"

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get over their stupidities too.

Quidquid luce fuit, tenebris agit.