…our passion and perseverance do not spring from a cold, calculating analysis of the costs and benefits of alternatives. Rather, the source of our strength is the person we know ourselves to be.

— Angela Duckworth, Grit

It is tempting to quote authors when they express our very own thoughts but with a clarity and psychological accuracy we cannot match.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

Putting alerts into email and hoping that someone will read all of them and notice the important ones is the moral equivalent of piping them to /dev/null: they will eventually be ignored.

— Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Richard Murphy, Site Reliability Engineering

…in politics it is the irrational passions that must be appealed to and utilized.

— Stephen R. C. Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism

epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, logic, and the like were not so much communicated as drowned in an ocean of boredom

— Hannah Arendt and Jerome Kohn, Thinking Without a Banister