"This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys."

“Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain's ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems.”

“The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.”

Source : Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

“Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.”

Source : John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.164, Macmillan

“After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.”

Source : "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, March 15, 1991.

“Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.”

“I go back to [the idea] that we are avoiding all of these unknowns, we're avoiding the night - most of us - we're avoiding the encounters, but we're also afraid to deal with something unknown, unseen.”

“You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.”

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”