When I was standing in the shallow end I really believed I was all in only later coming to realize
If you can catch someone lying to… you can figure out what they want… If you can catch yourself lying to… you can figure out your own desire The former can make you rich
The difference between Being asleep at the wheel And being asleep at the wheel Of a self-driving car Is that in the former
A student’s job has always been to put received knowledge into their own words or, more simply to state the obvious
Like generals husbands are always preparing to f… while their wives are always prepa… to fight the last just war
The fruit of the tree of knowledge… Has fully ripened In the form of the internet Which looms large With the promise of looming catast…
Faith can only move mountains by ignoring mountains of evidence Like most people who’ve lost their… I’ve retained my ability to ignore mountains of evidence
If we know our physics is real Because GPS works Then we know our God is real Because language works
Average academics Have a pet theory Dominant academics Have a pet theory about pet theori…
Our big mistake is thinking a leap of faith is a tandem parachute jump where God pulls the parachute and you float gently down
I’ve wasted most of my life wondering Why do I believe in God? when I should have been asking Why does God believe in me?
All self-help books boil down to this: You can’t fold a piece of paper more than 7 times but if you could fold it 103 times
Because we are social beings whenever people said they have no… they always meant they have no soc… Real life was social life But now social life is short for
I was waiting for my ship to come… But maybe I should have made like… And built a ship Especially since my neuroses all c… You’ve probably heard of them–
I thought I’d crafted a mystique when all I’d rea– lly made were mistakes