Seeing the psychologist Steven Pinker making pronouncements about things intellectual has a similar effect to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones.

Evidence of submission is displayed by the employee’s going through years depriving himself of his personal freedom for nine hours every day, his ritualistic and punctual arrival at an office, his denying himself his own schedule, and his not having beaten up anyone on the way back home after a bad day. He is an obedient, housebroken dog.

If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.