The Pragmatic Investment Plan is based on a very simple but effective idea: model your knowledge portfolio with the same care as you would manage a financial investment portfolio.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

…open source means that all the really engaging tasks are done for free…

— David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

…the ability to accurately read the desires and motivations of others is a hallmark of the successful psychopath and can be used for cruelty and exploitation.

— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy

The Leviathan Boghos Artinian 100 words I, a human being, thrive On cells, a hundred trillion strong! They all must strictly obey Commands in the genetic tongue That I may comfortably live And unencumbered behave, While each cell I ruthlessly hold, Until the day it dies, a slave! Yet I fail to understand That I also must bear the pain, Someday, of strictly obeying The alien commands in my brain That a leviathan may live And unencumbered behave, While me he would ruthlessly hold Until the day I die, a slave!

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

Brothers, love is a teacher, but a hard one to obtain: learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever. In anyone, even the wicked, love can be kindled by chance.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov