Yossi Kreinin

If you're not succeeding at least 90% of the time, nobody gives a shit about your opinion on anything. -- Honest Alan Kay

Tillerson needing "more info" to say that Putin murdered opponents is as detached from reality as Sanders saying he's "of Polish descent."

I conjecture that much of Attention Deficit Disorder is misdiagnosed Can Get Away With Anything Disorder and/or Shitty Teacher Disorder.

The hardest part of learning to program (that I nonetheless don't recommend to weasel out of) is learning English.

I work with a guy whose diet I call stupidarian - only eats organisms with low cognitive ability. Rates species, not individuals (phew!)

Irrational, adj.: ready to suffer a loss so as to inflict a loss. Syn.: tough, gutsy. Sample: Negotiate irrationally, you'll get more money.

You can do almost anything if you do just that thing and not much else. Single-mindedness is a superpower.

You call it "capitalism/socialism", not "free markets/statism" (the latter is barely a word.) Does the left ever lose a language war?

Without competition, people aren't inclined to cheat. Unfortunately, they aren't inclined to do a good job, either.

I'm from Soviet Russia, and they tell me it's "the end of liberal democracy" when liberals/Democrats lose an election. Is this how it works?

If you take pride in something like your racial identity, try moving your bowels. Might get you an achievement of your own to brag about.

Robots could cook us food and do the dishes, instead of taking our paying jobs. Why are robots such assholes?

How far you can see is not as critical as knowing how far you can see.

I don't know what justice looks like. But I can tell a friend from an enemy, which a lot of armchair justice theorists, incidentally, can't.

Sadly, animals don't talk, but on the upside, living with one is like watching a great silent movie or a pantomime.

Your interview puzzles are the Gordian Knot, and what they do is they weed out Alexander the Great.

People management is like asset management in that most active strategies do worse than a dumb passive strategy.

It's pretty hard for a statesman to do something genuinely good. Luckily, it's easy to do left or right things, making half the people happy

You're lucky if your culture fits your personality. Every culture is very uncomfortable for some of the people born into it.

Computers shove programmers' faces into a hundred of their own mistakes a day. But that can't teach us humility. Only falling wages can.