Quotes

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.'

I have a lot of family in Marquette. I'm way more familiar with the U.P. than I am with the lower peninsula. I've visited Michigan every couple of years since I was a kid.

You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.

Listen more than you speak.

I get messages from 21-year old white dudes who have just gotten out of an expensive college and say 'Hey can I pick your brain?' and I have nothing to say to them because A. They already have all the advantages and B. My advice would be the same as anyone else: Go do open mics.

I find that a really restful, relaxing way to spend time on a plane is to listen to an audiobook while drawing.

Doing a format parody is one of my favorite things to do in comedy.

I want people to know the truth. That's what drives me. That there is truth in the world to know, and once you know it, you have a responsibility to share it.

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

I'm the only member of my family who didn't get a PhD. So, I'm like the failure of the family, cause all I have is a bachelor's, like a drop out.

Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

I can't think of another place other than TV where a five-person sketch comedy group could make a living.

Social media is just more media.

I hate cars; in terms of what they do to nature and personally I just don't like driving them. I think they're a very bad way to design a transportation system.

My goal as a comedian is to sway people's opinion. It's not my only goal and it's not the only way I measure myself.

I need to challenge myself and to try to improve my knowledge. That's my goal.

Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children's entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.

Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.

In our age of individualism, we see computers as ways through which we can express our individuality. But the truth is that the computers are really good at spotting the very opposite. The computers can see how similar we are, and they then have the ability to agglomerate us together into groups that have the same behaviours.

Things come and go in the news cycle like waves of fever.

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

The Kurds had always had a bad time. They were oppressed by the Ottoman empire. Then, at the end of the First World War, they were promised a homeland, but the new Turkish state refused to give them any land, while the British went and created the new state of Iraq and sent aircraft to bomb the Kurds there into submission.

As well as our relationship with Afghanistan, I am researching the legacy of other European empires - in Africa. We think of those empires as history, but actually, they still haunt our everyday lives in the strangest of ways.

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.