2007: Chris Williamson

In order to transcend your programming, you have to become aware of it. And the choice that you have when it comes to happiness in life is between becoming aware of your mental afflictions or the discomfort of becoming ruled by them.

If you think that social media at the moment is bad, wait until almost all of it is not only driven to you by algorithms that know exactly what to give you but it's written by algorithms that know exactly what to say. Within the next 10 years, over 90% of content that's produced on the Internet won't be even made by humans.

For the first time in history, 50.1% of women are childless at 30. And a report from Reuters says that 45% of prime working age women between 22 and 45 will be single and childless by 2040.

Relationships where the woman out-earns the man are 50% more likely to end in divorce. Relationships where the woman contributes more than 80% of household income are twice as likely to end in divorce. Relationships where the man is not the primary breadwinner—he is 50% more likely to need to use erectile dysfunction medication.

There is a substantial body of research showing strong association between smartphone addiction, shrinkage of the brain's gray matter, and digital dementia ... Many habitual TikTokers can already be found complaining on websites like Reddit about their loss of mental ability, a phenomenon that's come to be known as TikTok brain.

Most of the people that you admire aren't superheroes; they're normal humans that have sacrificed pretty much everything in their life to be good at one thing.

It's very, very difficult for women to understand just how limited their fertility window is. 8 out of 10 women who are childless didn't intend to be childless.

It's very difficult to compete with somebody that's having fun, because I'm going to outwork everybody else in the room, and it's not even going to feel like work to me.

The number of men reporting no sex in the last year has tripled from 8% to 28% from 2008 to 2018. This is men between the ages of 18 and 30.

Women have been outperforming men in both education and employment for quite a while now. So, 2 women for every 1 man will complete a 4-year US college degree by 2030. Women, on average, between the ages of 21 and 29, earn £1,111 more than men do. So, you can see a potential issue here—you have an ever-increasing cohort of high-performing women that are educated and employed competing for an ever-decreasing cohort of ultra high performing men.

This is a theory that I've come up, with which is the male sedation hypothesis. So, it's my belief that men have been sedated out of this status-seeking and reproductive behavior through porn and video games.

70% of countries worldwide are below the birthrate tipping point. That means that the women in those countries are having less than 2 children. That's the number that you need in order to sustain society.

For the people that have legitimate concerns about what's happening with the environment and stuff like that, if you think that living on this planet is bad when you believe there's too many people on it, wait until you see what it's like when there's too few.

The most common answer to the question 'How many friends do you have that you could call in an emergency?' is zero.

Tom Hanks turns and looks straight at Ewan McGregor, and he goes, 'Faith is a gift that I'm yet to be given.' And I fucking love that line.

A good definition of wisdom would be something like understanding the outcomes of your actions and being able to accurately predict what's going to happen based on what you do. Knowledge would simply be an understanding of the actions and what they mean.

If you know one opinion that a person holds, and from that one opinion you can accurately predict everything else that they believe, they're not a serious thinker.

Some people can make it to the end of life having not had kids or a family and say that it's the right call, but you'd have to beat the odds pretty hard.

If you do self-rated happiness of parents, they're less happy than non-parents, but they have much more meaning in their life.

It's way worse than you think. However bad you think it is, the current decline in birth rates is significantly worse.

Guys who are in relationships and use porn are less likely to have sex with their partner ... If you're single, it's going to promote you to go out and actually get laid less.

Think about the fucking rise of stoicism, man. Stoicism is modern secular religion for people that don't want to have to believe in a higher power. Yoga is exactly the same thing.

Not being super materialistic, it's a competitive advantage—because the amount of money and possessions that I need in order to make me happy is like 10% of some of the friends that I've got.

It's unbelievably difficult to compete with somebody that's having fun, and nobody can beat you at being you, either.