There are two kinds of people in life: those who like crude dualities and those who do not.

Mathematics can instruct us on how to optimize. But what to optimize—that remains a question for humans.

It is a funny paradox of design: utility breeds beauty. There is elegance in efficiency, a visual pleasure in things that just barely work.

Paradox is the grain of sand that helps form the pearl of theory.

Psychology: it's sociology for sociopaths.