Fait-divers by Niels Bohr

"Prediction is difficult, especially about the future." (Niels Bohr)

Fait-divers on art

Writing is the art of finding the extraordinary and hiding it in a better place.

Fait-divers on robots

We're making it too easy for the robots to take over.

Fait-divers on humour again

People used to complain that life was short and dangerous. So modern medicine made it long and boring so that they would complain even more.

Fait-divers on humour

We live in a world where everybody is busy writing something so that there's nobody left to read it.

Fait-divers on taxes on disabled people

Lotteries are taxes on disabled people. Mathematicaly disabled people I mean.

Fait-divers on the internet

The biggest trick the internet ever played is convincing people that humor is a substitute for argument.

Fait-divers on books again and again

Communists tried to dumb down people by banning books. Capitalism, however, lets you buy them so that you put off reading them forever.

Fait-divers on books again

You read a good book, but a great book reads you.

Fait-divers on books

If you read for the purpose of education and not pleasure you'll end up with neither.

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Typos are the last gasp of individuality.

Fait-divers on information and data

The meaning of the word "information" has changed from "learning" to "data", and we with it.

Fait-divers on optimism and pessimism

Optimism is a form of pessimism because it assumes that there's something to improve.

Fait-divers on books

A bad book is one you never finish reading. This is also what makes a great book.

Fait-divers: humour?

Everything has been said before. But it would be worthless if you couldn't say it again.

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We live in an age where we write and photograph everything, but read and look at nothing.

Fait-divers on humour and internet

Internet privacy is amazing because humanity spent 5000 years to develop technology that lets you write things that nobody else read.

Fait-divers on humour

Humor is overrated. All it shows is that you are so privileged that you can afford to laugh.

Fait-divers: humour on pessimism

Pessimism is the art of feeling worse when things get better.

Fait-divers on dreaming

Dare to dream. You will wake up, but at least you got some sleep.