…in the wake of the deadliest war that the world had ever known one did not have to be a game theorist to favour preventing another – even by the brutal means of an atom-bombing campaign that left millions of Russians dead.

— Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man From the Future

I have individual subjects in whom apparent basic-need-gratification is compatible with “existential neurosis,” meaninglessness, valuelessness, or the like.

— Abraham H. Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

…the way they taught me to program in college was all wrong. You should figure out programs as you’re writing them, just as writers and painters and architects do.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

Loss of group-centred belief renders life chaotic, miserable, intolerable; presence of group-centred belief makes conflict with other groups inevitable. In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaningless, and that is no improvement at all.

— Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge (Forward), Ethan Van Sciver (Illustrator), 12 Rules for Life

If you have a problem and believe that your title is the only thing holding you back, I want to reassure you that focusing on developing your approach and skills will be far more impactful than the title.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer