Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.

— Susan Cain, Quiet

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