Mike

“Ideas come and go, stories stay.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“I need to ask myself, 'What would an Apollo astronaut do?' He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. Man those guys were cool.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“to be honorable implies not fearing the appearance and consequences of being outlandish.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable