…because our brains are part of nature, if we tend to exhibit regular behaviour, this means that nature itself must be equally regularity-oriented.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

…worrying about evil AI is a bit like worrying about overcrowding on Mars.

— Hannah Fry, Hello World

Reshape yourself through the power of your will; never let yourself be degraded by self-will. The will is the only friend of the Self, and the will is the only enemy of the Self.

— Eknath Easwaran Ed., The Bhagavad Gita

The Soul Toupee is that thing about ourselves we are most deeply embarrassed by and like to think we have cunningly concealed from the world, but which is, in fact, pitifully obvious to everybody who knows us.

— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

The best thing software can be is easy, but the way to do this is to get the defaults right, not to limit users’ choices.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters