Information is always in flux, and it is always a work in progress. Since nothing is ever truly final, there is no need to wait to get started

— Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain

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