something mentally strenuous provides a greater benefit to learning than something easy.

— Scott Young, Ultralearning

…from a Bayesian perspective, you need an amount of evidence roughly equivalent to the complexity of the hypothesis just to locate the hypothesis in theory-space.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Maps and Territory

Rejecting foundationalism means accepting that we have every right to hold basic beliefs that are not legitimated by philosophical reflection.

— Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley, The Stone Reader

Acknowledging that you do not have complete free will, or complete conscious control, actually increases the amount of free will and control you truly have.

— John A. Bargh, Before You Know It

THE HISTORY OF DIGITAL computing can be divided into an Old Testament whose prophets, led by Leibniz, supplied the logic, and a New Testament whose prophets, led by von Neumann, built the machines.

— George Dyson, Turing’s Cathedral