Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell. It is perhaps this fear of no longer being needed in a world of needless things that most clearly spells out the unnaturalness, the surreality of much that is called work today.

— Studs Terkel, Working

Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place And what is actual is actual only for one time And in one place I rejoice that things are as they are

— T. S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday

when people have limited or nonexistent emotional responses to situations, whether through injury or congenital defect, their decision making is seriously compromised.

— Alan Jacobs, How to Think

There is a weak and inconsistent association between testosterone levels and aggression in [human] adults, and . . . administration of testosterone to volunteers typically does not increase their aggression.

— Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave

…the ever-increasing efficiency of capitalist exploitation inevitably decreases the rate of profit, and that decreased rate of profit leads to monopolies.

— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking