we quickly forget the names of modern internet ‘heroes’, because tomorrow new ones will take their place. We may also forget that our own names and lives are just as fleeting, as we stubbornly try to engrave them in the world of social networks. We somehow believe that if enough people hear about us, our lives will matter.

— Maryna Lazareva, Virtual Dissolution

If there are biased reasons to say the Sun is shining, that doesn’t make it dark out.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind

Your success as a company isn’t measured in activity or effort put in, but in results. Why not manage your teams the same way?

— Brian Elliott, Sheela Subramanian, Helen Kupp, and Stewart Butterfield, How the Future Works

Art is a selective re-creation of reality

— Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto

If someone can suffer more, it means he’s worthy of suffering more.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot