This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of absence.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

Far worse than an error is *unconscious* plagiarism: you may repeat something not realizing someone else said it.

Once you detect that one of your passages or aphorisms resembles someone else's, you MUST signal it (footnote), even if you came up with it independently.

Most are too embarrassed to do so.