…a clay tablet from Mesopotamia, dated to about 1700 B.C. and now in the Louvre, poses the following problem: How long will it take for a sum of money to double if invested at 20 percent interest rate compounded annually?

— Eli Maor, E

There’s an additional depressing reason why stress fosters aggression—because it reduces stress.

— Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave

even toddlers know that rules should be followed but that they can be changed. These two capacities, capacities for love and law, for caring about others and following the rules, allow our characteristically human combination of moral depth and flexibility.

— Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby

Work in tech is almost always teamwork; it often doesn’t look nearly as cool as the things it can make happen; and in the end, if you take away the colorful bikes and the free burritos, it is a job like any other.

— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking

System archetypes are patterns of behavior of a system. Systems expressed by circles of causality have therefore similar structure. Identifying a system archetype and finding the leverage enables efficient changes in a system.

— The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge