The Bed of Procrustes

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion. (Location 94)

Pharmaceutical companies are better at inventing diseases that match existing drugs, rather than inventing drugs to match existing diseases. (Location 97)

Wisdom in the young is as unattractive as frivolity in the elderly. (Location 215)

The fewer the gods, the greater the dogma and theological intolerance. So n = 0 (“modern” atheists), n = 1 (Sunni purists), n = 1–2 (Monophysites), n = 3–12 (Greek Orthodoxy), n flex (Ancient Mediterranean Paganism). (Location 255)

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. (Location 357)

It seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice, particularly for writing and financial matters. (Location 379)