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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
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Today, we mostly face the choice between those who write clearly about a subject they don’t understand, and those who write poorly about a subject they don’t understand.
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The information rich dark ages: In 2010, 600,000 books were published, just in English, with few memorable quotes; c. zero AD, a handful of books were written; in spite of the few that survived, with loads of quotes.
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In the past most were ignorant except for one in a thousand refined enough to talk to. Today, literacy is higher but thanks to progress, literacy, the media, and finance, only one in ten thousand.
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We are better at (involuntarily) doing out of the box than (voluntarily) thinking out of the box.
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Half of suckerhood is not realizing that what you don’t like might be loved by someone else (hence by you, later), and the reverse.
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It is much less dangerous to think like a man of action than to act like a man of thought.
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Literature comes alive when covering up vices, defects, weaknesses, and confusions; it dies with every trace of preaching.
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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 普遍与特殊
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我靠自己学会的东西，到现在还记得。
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一般人会在不同的故事（以及情境）中寻找相同点，高人会在相似的故事（以及情境）中寻找不同点。
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要理解普遍与特殊之间的区别，可以考虑一下，有些人穿衣服是为了取悦某个特定的人，而不是所有人。
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我们会不自觉地放大自己跟朋友的相同之处，跟陌生人的不同之处，跟敌人的相反之处。
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许多人是如此缺乏独创精神，以至于他们需要去研究历史，寻找哪些错误是自己可以重复的。
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人们认为有害的东西，肯定在某些情况下是有益的；认为有益的东西，肯定在某些情况下是有害的。系统越复杂，“普遍规律”的效应就越差。
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傻瓜把特例当成惯例，书呆子把惯例当成特例，有些人两样都犯，聪明人两样都不犯。
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你想做你自己，表现出独特性；群体（学校，规矩，工作，科技）则想让你做大众的一分子，完全没有自己的特点，哪怕得为此把你阉掉。
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真正的爱是特殊性对普遍性的胜利，也是无条件对有条件的胜利。
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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 THE UNIVERSAL AND THE PARTICULAR
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What I learned on my own I still remember.
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Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations), finer minds detect differences.
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