“You are not Joey...there are no magic kingdoms in your future. No, you are face-to-face with the darkest days of winter.”

“You’ve heard of Occam’s Razor… Occam gives disheveled, often bloated philosophy a good shave. But not good enough!”

“We would not expect to find every human being alive today sharing DNA inherited from one particular ancestral couple, and yet, they do!”

“The only way to conserve the past is to change it (and) the surest way to destroy the past is to preserve it.”

"Not all thoughts come while shaving..."

“In the technical jargon of academia, the mashed potatoes are lumpier than we would have expected.”

“You share 99.9% of my DNA! How scary is that?”

“Photons do what frazzled parents can’t; they can be in two places at once. Better yet, they can be in all places at once.”

“Shame comes in two flavors: episodic shame and existential shame. Episodic shame can be habit-forming; it can turn into existential shame.”

“The future is hurtling toward us at the speed of a runaway train…Now is the hour of our death…Memento Mori does not go nearly far enough. Try Vivo Mori instead.”

“…the city had 260,000 residential units, 80,000 shops, 13,000 looms, 5,000 mills, and 4,000 open air markets… the central library contained over 400,000 volumes (allegedly more than the library at Alexandria before the conflagration.)”

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