Category: Aphorisms

If you’re afraid to fail, you’re also scared to succeed.

If people want to call a firefly a lightning bug, let them.

Most instances of innovation are failures.

The primary exceptional quality in most people is the extent to which they believe they are exceptional.

A wisdom-of-the-crowd approach works only if the crowd is a market and not a mob.

If you have more arguments than sex, you should evaluate your life.

Doctors are experts at making healthy patients sick.

Practitioners are better teachers than are professors.

If you tell people an unbelievable lie, you insult them three times by letting them know that you don’t think they 1) deserve the truth, 2) possess the intelligence to see you’re lying, and 3) merit the effort and time necessary to construct a better lie.

If you can see something coming, it has already happened.