Your customer doesn’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

— Stephen Orban, Ahead in the Cloud

We are horrified to discover that most people do not actually care how healthy a piece of technology is as long as it performs the function they need it to with a reasonable degree of accuracy in a timeframe that doesn’t exhaust their patience.

— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire

…acting like you have more status than I assign to you triggers a negative emotion, a slapdown response.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria

If you are successful and that success translates into financial success, you can expect, at minimum, around 50% of your income and wealth to be given to other people who did not work anywhere near as hard as you.

— Aaron Clarey, Curse of the High IQ

…readers of fiction are emotionally immersed in a way that readers of philosophy usually aren’t (as cognitive research confirms), so readers take the scenarios more seriously.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now