Delany

“The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.”
― William J. Bernstein, The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.”
― Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence

“The advances of science and technology will bring us to the greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham: how much to retrofit the human genotype. Shall it be a lot, a little bit, or none at all? The choice will be forced on us because our species has begun to cross what is the most important yet still least examined threshold in the technoscientific era. We are about to abandon natural selection, the process that created us, in order to direct our own evolution by volitional selection—the process of redesigning our biology and human nature as we wish them to be.”
― Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence