Unlike the Americans and the Engl… who are divided by a common langua… the Americans and the Parisians are divided by a common symptom: disappointment
Never Win Anything
When hell freezes over we’ll all skate on our sins
My greatest fear is losing control but I’m not in control I have an eternal soul but I’m afraid to die I’m scared of making mistakes
How much of your conflict with other tribes is the result of your efforts to avoid conflict within your own tribe?
People are only willing to wait and see when they already know what they are looking for
You need a high in– come to claim the moral high ground on your taxes
In a Hegelian reversal, I couldn’t com– plain but it would help
The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published
I don’t meet many people with a mind like a steel trap Instead, the really smart people tend to have minds like trawling n… to catch the really big fish
For every deep dive into the data there’s a data analyst with the be…
The brain is pattern-seeking And it will keep making the same m… Until it sees the pattern for itse…
Denial was a lot easier when your head was in the clouds but your memories were stored on microfiche
There aren’t any lines That you can’t cross– This is called free will But there are lines That you can’t uncross–
In regular old capitalism we used to say time is money In the attention economy we say