Mark Buchanan’s Ubiquity, Philip Ball’s Critical Mass, and Paul Ormerod’s Why Most Things Fail. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.

Studying neurobiology to understand humans is like studying ink to understand literature.

"The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us." - N.N.Taleb