Inadequate systems tend systematically to be systemically unfixable…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria

…often talk is an escape from doing anything. We chatter on and on to cover our feelings and to hide from ourselves and others our own futility.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought

Hyperfocus is the basis for innovative achievement.

— Andreas Hofer and Adrienn Raczi, Born Different

An interesting characteristic of human emotion is that the more painful the Chaos, the greater the perceived value of the New Status Quo…

— Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Peopleware

You have certainly no reason for holding that each person’s own interest is the standard of what is just and right.

— John Locke, Essays on the Law of Nature