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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Evolution is all about processes that almost never happen. Every birth in every lineage is a potential speciation event, but speciation almost never happens, not once in a million births. Mutation in DNA almost never happens - not once in a trillion copyings - but evolution depends on it. Take the set of infrequent accidents - things that almost never happen - and sort them into the happy accidents, the neutral accidents, and the fatal accidents; amplify the effects of the happy accidents - which happens automatically when you have replication and competition - and you get evolution.