Theorems are not discovered by accident.
The best scientific discoveries often happen at the interface of different disciplines.
Openness and collaboration are accelerators for technological development.
The power of randomness in algorithms is that it can help us find solutions that are difficult to discover through deterministic methods.
Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
Inflation is a very simple idea, but it explains a lot of things.