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

…concurrency and effects—are essential to achieve good performance on today’s hardware, making nondeterminism a necessary evil.

— Jamie Allen, Reactive Design Patterns

Children as young as three or four years old start establishing dominance hierarchies in kindergarten.

— Andreas Hofer and Adrienn Raczi, Born Different

If we allow that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life [i.e. as a spontaneous activity involving consciousness of free will] is destroyed.

— Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, and Michael Ignatieff, The Hedgehog and the Fox

The wholesale dealer takes no interest in the inner life of the trained pig that runs about for the truffles; all that exists for him are the results of the pig’s activity, and it is no different between us and our authorities.

— Stanislaw Lem, Seth Shostak, and Michael Kandel, His Master’s Voice