To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day toward self-actualization. Self-actualization is an ongoing process; it means making each of the many single choices about whether to lie or be honest, whether to steal or not steal at a particular point, and it means to make each of these choices as a growth choice. This is movement toward self-actualization.

— Abraham Maslow, Farther Reaches of Human Nature

…today’s educated workforce is full of philosophy or Renaissance literature majors who believe they are cut out for better things. They consider being a mere cog in administrative machinery beneath their dignity.

— David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

The average behavior of the market participant will not allow us to understand the general behavior of the market.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

Contrary to some people’s instincts, leaders who admit mistakes are more respected, not less.

— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google

…consciousness is nothing but the upper end of a spectrum of self-perception levels that brains automatically possess as a result of their design.

— Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop