“Many of my all-time favorite movies are almost entirely verbal. The entire plot of My Dinner with Andre is “Wallace Shawn and… — Brian Christian Cinema Copy Share Image
“Simply put, the representation of events in the media does not track their frequency in the world. As sociologist Barry Glassner notes,… — Brian Christian Gun violence Copy Share Image
“When I fight off a disease bent on my cellular destruction, when I marvelously distribute energy and collect waste with astonishing alacrity… — Brian Christian Consiousness Copy Share Image
“heuristic that favors simpler answers—with fewer factors, or less computation—offers precisely these “less is more” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“there are two ways you can fail: stopping early and stopping late” — Brian Christian Failure Copy Share Image
“The biggest purchaser of kale the year before had been Pizza Hut, which put it in their salad bars—as decoration” — Brian Christian Pizza hut Copy Share Image
“Unless we’re willing to spend eons striving for perfection every time we encounter a hitch, hard problems demand that instead of spinning… — Brian Christian Striving for perfection Copy Share Image
“Grandmaster games are said to begin with novelty, which is the first move of the game that exits the book. It could… — Brian Christian Books Copy Share Image
Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression. — Brian Christian Art Copy Share Image
“I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design… — Brian Christian Books Copy Share Image
“To get a better sense for these findings, we talked to UC Riverside’s Amnon Rapoport, who has been running optimal stopping experiments… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Like most conversations and most chess games, we all start off the same and we all end the same, with a brief… — Brian Christian Chess Copy Share Image
“When Charles Darwin was trying to decide whether he should propose to his cousin Emma Wedgwood, he got out a pencil and… — Brian Christian Children Copy Share Image
“your total amount of regret will probably never stop increasing, even if you pick the best possible strategy” — Brian Christian Regret Copy Share Image
“Don’t always consider all your options. Don’t necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time.” — Brian Christian Choice Copy Share Image
