On skewed statistics

A 50:50 chance is always 90:10 against you.

On the search for meaning

Meaningfulness is overrated.

On the mystery of working things

I rather have things not working for reasons that I understand than to have things working for reasons that are obscure.

Andy Warhol

Art is what you can get away with.

Ownership

More often Money has the people than people have the money.

O que não mata engorda / What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger

Cabeça partida, lição aprendida. / A cracked head is a lesson learned.

The other real life (V)

Life has many twists and turns and not always right ones.

The zeroth dimension

Inside your mind reality begins.

Conditional delusions of grandeur

I will have a great future ... if I survive to the end of the week.

Get mad, don't get even!

If you bump onto a wall, and you blame the wall for it, and you feel the furious urge to retaliate, consider that the wall may be stronger than you, and you may end up hurting yourself even more.

Useful aforism template

By filling in the blanks below you may create your own customized version of a clever aforism which you may use as a witty remark in numerous conversations.

Inside of every _____ there is a _____ struggling to get out.

On the protophysical ecstasy (not the pills!)

The messier, the merrier.

Use your happiness, quickly!

Money can buy happiness, but its expiration date is awfully short.

John Maynard Keynes

In the long run we are all dead.

The eclectic soup

Eclecticism is not an end in itself, it is just that the alternative is too boring!

Good judgement

Assuming people will use common sense, that's a terrible assumption to make.

Aforisms are better taken with a grain of ...

a) distrust.
b) disgust.
c) contempt.
d) all of the above.
e) pepper.

I originally thought of including also the option "hell!!! don't waste my time!!!", but anyone with that attitude wouldn't get past option e) ... so I didn't bother ... (but felt the need to explain it all very thoroughly anyway ...)

On geniality

Now that I can recognize geniality in others, I am ripe for becoming a genius myself.

Feel like you're the best...

... be average like all the rest