Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you want to punish an enemy, help put him on a pedestal. He will hurt himself falling from it.

A good book gets better on the second reading. A great book on the third. Any book not worth rereading isn’t worth reading.

The only way we have left to control suicide-terrorists would be precisely to convince them that blowing themselves up is not the worst-case scenario for them, nor the end scenario at all. Making their families and loved ones bear a financial burden — just as Germans still pay for war crimes — would immediately add consequences to their actions. The penalty needs to be properly calibrated to be a true disincentive, without imparting any sense of heroism or martyrdom to the families in question.