Bandits (bottom right), who pursue their own self-interest even when doing so poses a net detriment to societal welfare.

Law #1 Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

Law #2 The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

Law #3 A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Law #4 Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

Law #5 A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

A stupid person is more dangerous than a pillager.

Two factors are important to consider when exploring human behaviour: Benefits and losses that an individual causes to: 1. him or herself and 2. to others.

Intelligent people (top right), who contribute to society and who leverage their contributions into reciprocal benefits.

Helpless people (top left), who contribute to society but are taken advantage of by it (and especially by the "bandit" sector of it); note, however, that extreme altruists and pacifists may willingly and consciously (rather than helplessly) accept a place in this category for moral or ethical reasons.

Stupid people (bottom left), whose efforts are counterproductive to both their and others' interests.

Angry people are not always wise.

I work out.

There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.'

The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.

There will come a day when I can no longer run. Today is not that day.

Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?

We want the people, in their private lives, to be completely free, and in today's world, having access to information and the right of free dialogue and the right to think freely is the right of all peoples, including the people of Iran.

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, rigid blade which you can pick up for about ten bucks in a kitchenware shop or fish market. A quick trip online will yield any number of videos and slide shows with step-by-step instructions on how to shuck an oyster.

The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

There are a lot of apps that are fun to use - they're utility apps; they're fine. But there are a fraction of apps that are in the cream of the crop. You just need to be in the cream of the crop to get noticed.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.

I have practice from 9 A.M. to 12 P.M., and then I drive home and eat lunch, which is either chicken or fish so I get the protein.

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

I've always been a dog owner, from the time I was a little boy in Chicago.

I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.

Spiderman was my favorite comic book character growing up. I'm a geek, so I love the fact Peter Parker is into science. And I gravitate towards short guys. I'm 5' 9" now, but in junior high, I got picked on because I was 4' 8".

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.