"Imbeciles summarize the black swan by 'shit happens.' Intelligent people say 'Let us learn how not to be a Turkey.'"

"Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous."

"Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness."

"Medieval man was a cog in a wheel he did not understand; modern man is a cog in a complicated system he thinks he understands."

"The problem with modernity is that it has removed us from our natural environment."