Hedonists have long known that happiness, when aimed at, is harder to achieve. If my strongest desire is that I be happy, I may be less happy than I would be if I had other desires that were stronger. Thus I might be happier if my strongest desire was that someone else be happy.

— Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

Every advance in epistemology and moral knowledge has reinstated the Sophists.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

Collectively we are genocidal, and individually we are all potential concentration camp guards. We are both the lust for life and the craving for death: they are what make us human.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

In 1976, Radelet writes, “Mao single-handedly and dramatically changed the direction of global poverty with one simple act: he died.”

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

The idea that everyone should own all the code, I don’t think is really practical because there’s going to be too much of it. People are going to have to specialize; you need an expert sometimes.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work