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“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,”
― Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

“If fear is removed from jealousy, what’s left?”
― Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

“I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD).”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“authorities often exploit their subordinates for their own benefit while believing they are perfectly just.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“If you believe people are good, you must be unafraid to share information with them”
― Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

“we’d prefer hiring someone who was clever and curious over someone who actually knew what he was doing.”
― Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

“Ever transcribed 141 random bytes, one-half of a byte at a time?”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Beers for everyone if I get back to Earth.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“It’s true, you know. In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“sift people to find the humans.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“To not even write back and say no, why would she do that?”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance: An Investigation

“if you own a smartphone, you’re carrying a 24-7 singles bar in your pocket.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance: An Investigation

“Nowadays the Internet is my chubby friend.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance: An Investigation

“The world is available to us, but that may be the problem.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance: An Investigation

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“as everybody in the Andes knows, when the devil comes to work his evil on earth he sometimes takes the shape of a limping gringo stranger. And”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Death in the Andes

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“There is a feeling of death hanging over the nation. Today”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals