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Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions are right - noises are commonplace. And in some cases, these noisy worlds may ring with the sounds of life - the bleats and bellows of creatures we have never seen, but may someday discover.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.

You don't have to be noisy to be effective.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.

This life is messy.