“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”

“The problem with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you so very often succeed.”

“Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.”

“It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.”

“Rather than ask yourself if you are correct, it is far more realistic to think about how you are mistaken. Most humans have not been designed to be right very often.”

“If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!”