I am quite sure that amidst the hustle and bustle of American life, there is a great deal of wistfulness, of the divine desire to lie in a plot of grass under tall beautiful trees…

Perhaps I don’t understand economics, but economics does not understand me, either.

All animals are under stringent selection pressure to be as stupid as they can get away with

To himself, everyone is immortal. He can know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead

They call themselves right or left but none of them are here

The market does not reward understanding, it rewards utility

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot …

I have this thing for... women with a pulse

If brains were dynamite, some people wouldn't have enough to blow their nose.

Once academic action trascends into activism, it ceases being academic output, due to intrinsic bias. The moment a researcher adopts a predetermined cause or political aim as a…

America will defend its homeland wherever it appears

They're giving us slop because we're accepting slop. It's a race to see who can fall asleep with their phone in their hand first. It doesn't matter who sees the ads, it only matte…

There is an old Belfast joke about the man stopped at a roadblock and asked his religion. When he replies that he is an atheist he is asked, “Protestant or Catholic atheist?"

There will be a day when business administration gets its haircut. Tech breathes in and out, and right now its breathing out.

never forget 9/11, but do forget tower 7

As a climber, I believe in safety first. That's why not only do I never climb, I maintain a poor fitness and skill level to ensure that I never get tempted to climb

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro

Why do I take so long to take a piss? I'm getting lectures in piss efficiency by people who took 7 years to do their undergrad

You saved me from starvation!

Do you know the difference between a bad joke and a dad joke? The first letter

Gaslight your therapist into thinking you don't have problems, and then get mad when they don't fix them

If you step on a cockroach you're a hero, if you crush a butterfly you're a monster. Morality has an aesthetic factor

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

You'd get dumped by an AI girlfriend

*Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.* They change their sky, not their soul, those who rush across the sea.

You can't do much for people who are dumb. People like to be dumb because it is easy, but make it hard for them. Argue with them.

Hobo clowns are the most dangerous cuz they're hungry

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gra…

Life was never supposed to be aware of Death.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

You don't try and go into space and up to the moon and Mars and build space stations and so on so you can escape the Earth when you've messed it up. It is the opposite. The ide…

Through neutralizing the smell of gasoline, [catalytic converters] really do a fantastic job of hiding just how much gasoline we are burning

If you resist change because you like the way things are, but others embrace change, where does that leave you? unchanged and behind. is that a good place to be?

It is generally an attractive property of food to not be on the Mohs scale

Matthew Perrished

The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend. Don't let hate for one monster make you a slave to another

You must take your opponent into a deep, dark forest where 2+2=5 and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentlemen. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

If we could learn to look instead of gawking, We'd see the horror in the heart of farce, If only we could act instead of talking, We wouldn't always end up on our arse. …

The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. The human being created civilization not because of a willingn…

The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to real…

God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary.

The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.

Neurons that fire together, wire together

If you want to clean out a haunted mansion you need a Luigi

I asked ChatGPT if I was developing cyberpsychosis and it told me that I'm too smart for that