Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Brothers Karamazov

…what most religious propositions may lack in plausibility they make up for by being memorable, emotionally salient, and socially consequential.

— Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape

…only poetry could heal the rift that had grown up between Religion and Reason.

— Lloyd Spencer, Introducing Hegel

Good work experiences have always got a fair measure of challenge about them.

— Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Peopleware

Genius isn’t a noun; it’s a verb.

— Dan Charnas, Everything in Its Place