Tim OBrien

“Yet here’s the paradox: the image of a dangerous world has never been broadcast more effectively than it is now, while the world has never been less violent and more safe.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Evolution left us with another burden: our cognitive, emotional, and moral faculties are adapted to individual survival and reproduction in an archaic environment, not to universal thriving in a modern one.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“She could not envision a God who demanded such particularity of belief, whose mercy and forgiveness were confined to such a precise segment of humankind.”
― G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King

“An oft-told joke: a statistician drowned crossing a river that was only three feet deep on average.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't