…aim at fault tolerance instead of fault avoidance, because avoidance will not be fully successful.

— Jamie Allen, Reactive Design Patterns

So much of sticking with things is believing you can do it. That belief comes from self-worth. And that comes from how others have made us feel in our lives.

— Angela Duckworth, Grit

A distinguished researcher once commented to me that a real scientist is someone who can think about a subject while talking to his or her spouse about something else.

— Edward O. Wilson, Letters to a Young Scientist

The best we can do (we who are not gods) is, Kant wrote, comprehend its incomprehensibility.

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

You are never entitled to your opinion. Ever! You are not even entitled to “I don’t know.” You are entitled to your desires, and sometimes to your choices. You might own a choice, and if you can choose your preferences, you may have the right to do so. But your beliefs are not about you; beliefs are about the world. Your beliefs should be your best available estimate of the way things are; anything else is a lie.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind