Lucas Manea

“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“I think generally people’s thinking process is too bound by convention or analogy to prior experiences. It’s rare that people try to think of something on a first principles basis. They’ll say, “We’ll do that because it’s always been done that way.” Or they’ll not do it because “Well, nobody’s ever done that, so it must not be good.” But that’s just a ridiculous way to think. You have to build up the reasoning from the ground up—“from the first principles”
― Tim Urban, The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why

“A man cannot drink from a mirage, but he can drown in it.”
― Brian Herbert, House Corrino

“Depending on where The Great Filter occurs, we’re left with three possible realities: We’re rare, we’re first, or we’re fucked.”
― Tim Urban, Wait But Why Year One: We finally figured out how to put a blog onto an e-reader