A man of genius makes no mistakes, His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery

— James Joyce, Ulysses

Learning is limited by an organization’s ability to keep its people.

— Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister, Peopleware

…perhaps happiness is synchronising one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions.

— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens

Thoreau provides us with a kind of comforting perspective on loneliness, by pointing out that no matter how hard we try there will always be a chasm of consciousness between me and another person.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

Postcolonial Theory establishes much of its claim to importance by assuming there must be permanent problems that have been handed down to us through language constructed centuries ago.

— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories