When someone finds an excuse not to try to do better, they often refuse to concede that anyone else can try to do better, and every mode of improvement is thereafter their enemy, and every claim that it is possible to move forward is an offense against them.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind

With the right people, any process works, and with the wrong people, no process works.

— Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle

The Pragmatic Investment Plan is based on a very simple but effective idea: model your knowledge portfolio with the same care as you would manage a financial investment portfolio.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

…open source means that all the really engaging tasks are done for free…

— David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

…the ability to accurately read the desires and motivations of others is a hallmark of the successful psychopath and can be used for cruelty and exploitation.

— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy