It is a feature of human beings that the way we think about ourselves can change the kind of selves we are.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

…googol, a name invented by a child, the nine-year-old nephew of the mathematician Edward Kasner, who was looking for a name for the number that is 1 followed by 100 zeros.

— Lance Fortnow, The Golden Ticket

Intellectual and ethical freedom requires the absence of the skin of others in one’s game, which is why the free are so rare.

— NassimNicholasTaleb, Skin in the Game

Everyone in the sciences secretly believes that mathematicians are smarter than they are. I think mathematicians also believe this. At any rate, the result is that scientists tend to make their work look as mathematical as possible.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

…we are all cyborgs, defined as hybrids of man and machine. Examples such as using watches to tell the time, wearing glasses to correct vision, or using a pacemaker, by definition make us cyborgs.

— Donna Harraway, A Cyborg Manifesto