People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.

Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.

Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing

Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.

Design your site so it looks professional

Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.

Do not quit. Hang on the wings of hope.

You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

I think [Ann Coulter] understands that, she's Pavlov's dog. She gets the corn kernel if she hits that drum once in a while.

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.