…to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous.’

— E. F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed

…isn’t the Minotaur merely the fruit of such sin, not a perpetrator, a victim, the most long-suffering victim?

— Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, The Physics of Sorrow

You don’t think through another’s brain and you don’t work through another’s hands. When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life.

— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

A second example of wishful thinking is to believe that learning how to program in a computer science course or a coding-intensive workshop will enable you to solve problems in any field that uses computation. No, you will need to learn something about the other field too.

— Peter J. Denning and Matti Tedre, Computational Thinking

…fear guards the line between the zone of excellence and the ultimate zone of genius.

— Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership