…the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligentsia” can’t find a coconut on Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence, hence fall into circularities—their main skill is a capacity to pass exams written by people like them, or to write papers read by people like them.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

The arts offer bridges to seeing human diversity as joyful, funny, tragic, delightful, not as a horrible fate to be shunned

— Martha Nussbaum, The Monarchy of Fear

In 1985, David Deutsch, one of the pioneers of this area, published a landmark paper in quantum computation, “Quantum theory, the Church-Turing principle and the universal quantum computer.” In this paper he described quantum computers and how they differed from conventional computers. The question was whether quantum computers were more computationally powerful than traditional computers. It took some time, but the conclusion was that they were not.

— Chris Bernhardt, Turing’s Vision

To think rationally means adopting appropriate goals, taking the appropriate action given one’s goals and beliefs, and holding beliefs that are commensurate with available evidence.

— Keith E. Stanovich, What Intelligence Tests Miss

Directing an entire organization is hard. Seeming to direct it, on the other hand, is easy. All you have to do is note which way the drift is moving and instruct the organization to go that way.

— Tom DeMarco, Slack