It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain

In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.