- Most people will be nice to others unless it’s in their interest not to be, but if it is, there are no limits to how nasty they can get.
- Remember that psychos are often charming, and good company. You can only get away with being totally amoral if people tend to forgive you. Ugly folk with no charisma have to adopt a different strategy to get on. Of course some of them end up bitter and twisted, but you can spot them a mile off.
- Fix things where they’re broken, and not where it’s easiest. This applies to everything from plumbing to software.
- It doesn’t take a great deal of effort to drop a bottle of nitroglycerine.
- Feedback loops are the key to getting results without having to work hard. They are also the only way to get results however hard you work when the situation is complicated enough.
- There’s no point planning to mitigate the effects of something which will certainly kill you if it happens.
- People care about individuals, Nature doesn’t. From this comes most of morality and the search for meaning.
- Some things seem to be impossible to legislate away – abortion and drug use for example. If you believe ( not that I do ) that these things are bad, what, if anything should a government do about them?
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