The physicist’s evident propensity to theorize, these scholars derived from sexual repression. Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig but also to render it invisible.

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

…it’s not innovation that leads to success. It’s execution.

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Understanding Software

Why does Microsoft exist? And why do I exist in this new role? These are questions everyone in every organization should ask themselves.

— Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh

…philosopher Julian Baggini wrote that “‘I’ is a verb masquerading as a noun.”

— Grayson Perry, The Decent of Man

You build your self-discipline when you keep doing something simply because it helps you realize your full potential and not because it will make you look good in the eyes of other people or provide you with rewards.

— Martin Meadows, Daily Self-Discipline