Very often, and even most often, choice is utterly and stubbornly opposed to reason. And do you know that that too is profitable? Sometimes even praiseworthy.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

When you combine self-interest and sociality with impartiality—the interchangeability of perspectives—you get the core of morality.

— Steven Pinker, Rationality

In the computer industry, it takes roughly fifteen years, on the average, from the conception of an idea to its entering the marketplace.

— Michio Kaku, Visions

…at some point something must have come from nothing…

— Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

Over the first half of the 20th century, the tax grew from “unconstitutional proposal” to “tentative experiment” to “wartime necessity” to “the government’s primary funding mechanism.”

— Ben Orlin, Math With Bad Drawings