Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

It is easiest to do the most when you have nothing to do.

If you want to accelerate someone’s death, give him a personal doctor. I don’t mean provide him with a bad doctor: just pay for him to choose his own. Any doctor will do. This may be the only possible way to murder someone while staying squarely within the law. We can see from the tonsillectomy story that access to data increases intervention, causing us to behave like the neurotic fellow.

One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need is one single (and, I am told, quite ugly) black bird.*