Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That’s simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people.

— Stephen Orban, Ahead in the Cloud

If we identify virtue with natural endowments, all individuals are not equal.

— Luc Ferry, A Brief History of Thought

The realization that one has sacrificed a more important value (family, love, home, youth) for a less important value (work) is devastating.

— Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister, Peopleware

…math can be taught in a way that stifles its beauty. Learning math as a bunch of rules without meaning-making insights or as an endless stream of repetitive problems that lack joyful resolution is a surefire way to sap desire.

— Francis Su, Mathematics for Human Flourishing

Is it not curious that anthropologists who claim to be cultural relativists seldom hesitate to pass strong moral judgments on aspects of their own culture which they find distasteful?

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener