Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.

With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

I’m half crazy but I know the Devil real. I should know, I signed a record deal.

I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.

Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you.

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.

Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.

We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.