Want to guarantee nasty conflicts? Take a word with multiple, fuzzy, definitions, force people to strike an agreement on it, attach large amounts of money to it, and then watch them fight about it a year or two later.

— Michael T. Nygard, Release It!

The philosophy of Ayn Rand has long been in league with a certain kind of adolescence. … many of those who never outgrow her have an immature, autodidactic energy as adults.

— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking

Turing gave an argument that was supposed to show that mental procedures cannot carry further than mechanical procedures. That argument is inconclusive, Gödel said, because it depends on the supposition that a finite mind is capable of only a finite number of distinguishable states.

— Richard Tieszen, Simply Gödel

There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death, it is because some politician wants them to.

— Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

Respect of subordinates for their commander? No, Schofield says. The origin of great leadership begins with the respect of the commander for his subordinates.

— Angela Duckworth, Grit