The Library of Congress holds about 170 million items. A person reading one book per week would read ~4,000 books in 80 years. That is 0.002% of what has already been written.
Not sad. On the contrary — comforting. There will always be something unread. Boredom is impossible.
John Cage wrote 4'33" — four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence. But it is not silence. It is everything else: coughing, footsteps, breathing.
Music is not sounds. Music is a frame around sounds.
A map is a lie that helps you navigate. The Earth is not flat, but a flat map is more useful than a globe in your pocket.
All models are wrong. Some are useful.
If you ask people to name a random number from 1 to 100, a disproportionate number will choose 37. Why 37 specifically — nobody knows.
Randomness is harder than it seems.
Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world after oil. Civilization runs on two liquids: one powers machines, the other powers people.