Michael On
Michael On
tombstone race humans
They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
mexican mexican-food decent
You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.
praying mercy knows
He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.
alive
No one escapes from life alive.
screw-you screws
The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.
jargon world academic
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
smart want twenties
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
evolution behavior species
For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.
teaching animal dna
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.
pride accomplishment people
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.
dark rocks alive
The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.
creative confusing trouble
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.
long enough ruined
If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.
risk survival outcomes
At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.