When our life crackles and sparks like a torch, we curse the necessity of spending eight hours in useless sleep. When we have been deprived of everything, when we have been deprived of hope, then bless you, fourteen hours of sleep!

— Roman Gelperin, On Rotting Prison Straw

…very few people know themselves so well and live their lives so in tune with their intuition that they avoid self-deception.

— Janice Fraser, Jason Fraser, and Eric Ries, Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama

I do not respect myself. Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From the Underground

…as Bentham notes, many grown animals are far more intelligent than newborn babies, but we accord newborn babies rights.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

The lesson that I slowly learned was that you couldn’t be an effective long-term leader until you learn how to follow.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer