“Know thyself!” There is nothing that so aids and assists the awakening of omniscience within us as insistent thoughts about one’s own transgressions, errors, mistakes.

— Roman Gelperin, On Rotting Prison Straw

Information is always in flux, and it is always a work in progress. Since nothing is ever truly final, there is no need to wait to get started

— Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain

Trevor Blackwell, who adds, “The cost of writing software goes up more than linearly with its size.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

If you put some effort into appearing normal, you can save yourself a lot of time, during which you can be what you want to be in peace.

— Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, The Physics of Sorrow

Philip K. Dick wrote, reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

— Steven Pinker, Rationality