“Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.” GivingStarsTreeEqualEternityFruitExtremesPermanenceFragilityBlossomingFruit Trees Book:Gravity and Grace Source: Gravity and Grace
“I'm working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.” PeopleWarSeemsTodayWantedStarsBlackOfficePaperWindowScriptsExtremesCoveredCovered Up Author:J. J. Abrams
“We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.” ShouldLyingStarsInterestSpaceMiddleExtremesRangeGenesCompounds Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior over one hour in an artificial situation. This was a perfect instance of a general rule that I call WYSIATI, "What you see is all there is." We had made up a story from the little we knew but had no way to allow for what we did not know about the individual's future, which was almost everything that would actually matter. When you know as little as we did, you should not make extreme predictions like "He will be a star."” KnowsWayShouldLittlesMadeMatterStoriesIndividualStarsHoursPerfectSituationBehaviorTrainingPerformancesSoldierExtremesInstanceCombatOfficersArtificialPredictionsOne Hour Author:Daniel Kahneman