Systematic Thinker Gifts

"I think he may have a system."

How self-regulation is meant to work and how it does work.

"My System 1 tells me she's articulate, capable, shrewd. My System 2 says BIMBO."

"Marshall, somewhere out there, just waiting for us, is a loophole in the system."

'I pledge allegiance to the atom, and to the periodic table on which it stands, many particles indivisible, with orbitals and electrons for all.'

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

"Imagine if only 1/2 the companies that claimed to have a great culture actually did."

"Let's face it. The only play you've ever liked is 'Stop the World - I Want to Get Off.'"

When Engineers Crack.

"It looks like a perfectly balanced system to me."

A political promise is intended to be a golden egg...Which is kept in a pork barrel and after an election...Hatches into a dead duck before...it turns invisible so it can quietly vanish.

'Yeah, I don't have trouble remembering my times tables, but I stink at algebra...'

Reasonableman

"We only got up to three 'whys' and a 'what the hell'."

"Maths is easy because it's so logical. 2 + 2 obviously equals 22."

Community church - the home of religion lite - Sermon: 'Atheism? You may be right!'

'Carl Jung loses it...' 'don't tell me I made a Freudian slip - it's a Jungian slip!'

'A geneticist laid bare my genetic blueprint, and I feel violated.'

'The difference between the sexes...First Contact...'

Can't you anarchists do anything within the system?

Scientific Research: 'Uh...why'd it take'em 20 yeahs t' figyah that out?'

"Let's try to think of something that untold millions of people will buy."

"Why do I hate religion? Imagine if half the money ever donated to religion had instead been used for scientific research. That's the world religion stole from me! Instead of worrying about the coronavirus, I could be slaying orcs on a starship's holodeck!"

'Do I believe in evolution? - Well, I suppose we should get it over with.'

"The central digital platform is temporarily renamed Project Schrödinger’s Cat. Until it is accessed on the 24th February it both is and is not a working system."

"I can Botox it, but I don’t want to freeze up my sixth chakra."

'So, how should we play this - capitalism or socialism?'

'...working for that Professor Schr?dinger didn't help.'

Dept. of Mathematics and Frustration.

"Until you're top management, Warrick, I strongly suggest you stay within the lines."

"If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we admit that the moon landing was a big conspiracy?"

"Religion: Man's attempt to make sense of a frightening universe. Science: See 'Religion'."

The Church of DanaeDanaeism: 'Intellectual bigotry...Go ahead, blaspheme my holy scriptures, the media loves it...'

"Actually, that old axiom was based on faulty mathematics! I discovered that when you correct this ration, two wrongs DO make a right!"

"Archaeologists discovered several enormous ancient cities buried under the jungles of Cambodia. That means the Khmer civilization was the largest empire on Earth from the 9th to the 12th centuries. That changes everything about our conception of the Middle Ages. What was your conception of the Middle Ages? Well... it was... well, knights, maidens, dragons... mostly dragons. And elves."