If the professor is not capable of giving a class without preparation, don't attend. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Had Prozac been available last century, Baudelaire's "spleen," Edgar Allan Poe's moods, the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the lamentations of so many other poets, everything with a soul would have been silenced*....
If large pharmaceutical companies were able to eliminate the seasons, they would probably do so — for profit, of course.

*This does not mean that Sylvia Plath should not have been medicated at all. The point is that pathologies should be medicated when there is risk of suicide, not mood swings."

How much you truly “believe” in something can be manifested only through what you are willing to risk for it.

Any action one does with the aim of winning an award, any award, corrupts to the core.