…plain talk will not be easily achieved in corporate America. Too much vanity is on the line. Managers at every level are prisoners of the notion that a simple style reflects a simple mind. Actually a simple style is the result of hard work and hard thinking; a muddled style reflects a muddled thinker or a person too arrogant, or too dumb, or too lazy to organize his thoughts.

— William Zinsser, On Writing Well

In a sense humanists still needs gods, so they can argue against them.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

Is it really absolutely necessary for all of them to get together physically, especially when it’s so easy to do virtually? A great deal of research has been done on the science of human connection and concludes that yes, it is necessary; it’s not just our observations that fuel this step.

— David Komlos and David Benjamin, Cracking Complexity

“All my methods are rational,” said Captain Ahab. “Only my ends are insane.”

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

The renowned information theorist Claude Shannon, whose discoveries paved the way for modern technology, had a simple definition for “information”: that which surprises you. If you’re not surprised, then you already knew it at some level, so why take note of it?

— Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain