Monotheistic religion isn't so much about telling man that there is one God, so much preventing man from thinking that he is God. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

My point: life is not about outcomes, it's how you handle adversity. Suffering doesn't prevent you from being a role model, to the contrary --depends how you handle it. Popping pills does disqualify you.

If you detect a repressed smile on the salesperson's face, you paid too much for it.