…the toll from these mass shootings equals about one-tenth of 1 percent of American homicides, a statistical nonevent. (That is, if you could wave a magic wand and end all mass shootings forever, nobody looking at the overall homicide rates would even notice.)

— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy

“Know thyself!” There is nothing that so aids and assists the awakening of omniscience within us as insistent thoughts about one’s own transgressions, errors, mistakes.

— Roman Gelperin, On Rotting Prison Straw

Information is always in flux, and it is always a work in progress. Since nothing is ever truly final, there is no need to wait to get started

— Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain

Trevor Blackwell, who adds, “The cost of writing software goes up more than linearly with its size.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

If you put some effort into appearing normal, you can save yourself a lot of time, during which you can be what you want to be in peace.

— Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, The Physics of Sorrow