“...there's an inverse relationship between frequency and information content...It doesn't do you much good to understand 80% of the word in a sentence if the remaining 20% are the most important for understanding its meaning”

“The other problem is redundancy isn't a bug, it's a feature.”

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

“It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.”

“About half the global economy is living beyond not only its means but its diminished number of children's means. Instead of addressing that fact, countries with government debt of 125 percent of GDP are being "rescued" by countries with government debt of 80 percent of GDP. Good luck with that.”

“The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word "metaphor" is a metaphor.I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining and apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.”

“Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped.-from the Prefatory”