Trevor Blackwell, who adds, “The cost of writing software goes up more than linearly with its size.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

If you put some effort into appearing normal, you can save yourself a lot of time, during which you can be what you want to be in peace.

— Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, The Physics of Sorrow

Philip K. Dick wrote, reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

— Steven Pinker, Rationality

The problem with dystopian rhetoric is that if people believe that the country is a flaming dumpster, they will be receptive to the perennial appeal of demagogues: “What do you have to lose?”

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

…trying to do things they can’t yet do, failing, and learning what they need to do differently is exactly the way experts practice.

— Angela Duckworth, Grit