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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“how we think of free will. While we all think that we first plan our actions and that they are then willfully carried out, in some cases a part of our frontal lobe may actually “decide” first, unconsciously, that we will perform an act, and after we carry out the act we fool ourselves into thinking we planned it.”
― James Fallon, The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain

“acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“curing autism would be the same as “curing” science and art.”
― Kristine Barnett, The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism

“most widespread gains in brain training come from programs that simultaneously address multiple aspects of a person, such as traditional martial arts training and enriched school curricula.”
― Scott Barry Kaufman, Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined

“found graphene hiding out in the graphite from an ordinary pencil.”
― Sarah Lewis, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

“If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place . . . If you’re rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace.”
― Sarah Lewis, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

“Mizuta Masahide’s haiku: “My barn having burned down / I can now see the moon.”
― Sarah Lewis, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

“Rational flâneur (or just flâneur): Someone who, unlike a tourist, makes a decision opportunistically at every step to revise his schedule (or his destination) so he can imbibe things based on new information obtained. In research and entrepreneurship, being a flâneur is called “looking for optionality.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“If you were judged and paid based on what you actually contributed to your organization, then time and place wouldn’t be a factor.”
― Cali Ressler, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution

“Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Above all, we know that there’s a physical basis for every psychological attribute we have: if just the right spot gets damaged, we can lose just about anything in our mental repertoire, no matter how sacred.”
― Sam Kean, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

“cure for imperfect automation is total automation.”
― Anonymous

“steps necessary to promote the development and maintenance of expertise almost always entails a sacrifice of speed and productivity.”
― Anonymous

“Perhaps this was the most surprising thing about Alan Turing. Despite all he had done in the war, and all the struggles with stupidity, he still did not think of intellectuals or scientists as forming a superior class.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

“For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

“Hilbert had written of Galileo that in his recantation ‘he was not an idiot. Only an idiot could believe that scientific truth needs martyrdom – that may be necessary in religion, but scientific results prove themselves in time.’ But this was not a trial of scientific truth.”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

“Dysrationalia is the inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence.”
― Keith E. Stanovich, What Intelligence Tests Miss

“During a sabbatical he learned enough biology to make a small but genuine contribution to geneticists’ understanding of mutations in DNA.”
― James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

“President Eisenhower, like many Americans, is a very fervent believer in a very vague religion.”
― Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

“He had been told, he said, of “colored students at the University of Minn[esota] partying with female students (white) and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

“1993, in the death throes of apartheid, South Africa imprisoned 853 black men per hundred thousand in the population. The United States imprisons 4,919 black men per hundred thousand (versus only 943 white men). So because of the drug war and the way it is enforced, a black man was far more likely to be jailed in the Land of the Free than in the most notorious white supremacist society in the world.”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

“The first tugs towards prohibition were about power, and purity of belief. If you are going to have one God and one Church, you need to stop experiences that make people feel that they can approach God on their own.”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

“Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you—it’s the cage you live in.”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

“Jean tells me the drug dealers he used to work for are “completely against this program. They can control people in weak states and make money from them. If I was still in the criminal milieu, they could make me a killer, I would do anything.” As he said this, I thought of Chino and Rosalio. “But now? No. I am lost for them.”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

“Swiss citizens could see now that U.S.-style drug crackdowns had brought chaos to their streets—and after the government provided a legal route to heroin, the chaos vanished. So they argued that the drug war means disorder, while ending the drug war means slowly restoring order.”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

“The war on drugs makes it almost impossible for drug users to get milder forms of their drug—and it pushes them inexorably toward harder drugs.”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

“this change has caused another transformation—in how people see the police. “I don’t think [people in poor neighborhoods] see the police now as enemies.”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs