Bad things happen periodically, and they’re going to happen to somebody. Why not you? - John Allen Paulos

A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidences is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but less flashy statistical evidence.

Humor, since it depends on so many emotional, social, and intellectual facets of human beings, is particularly immune to computer simulation.

Two dangers threaten the world—order and disorder.