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“Like how money is just squiggles on paper or on a screen until it determines whether you can eat lunch, words are just meat twitches until they determine whether you can get a job—or whether someone will even deign to tell you where the shoe section is.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“I have come to believe that an individual consciousness represents an entity so personal and ontologically unique that it qualifies as something we might as well call a soul.”
― John Brockman, What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything – 150 Influential Thinkers on God, Love, and Evolution

“As soon as we know that we are wrong, we aren’t wrong anymore, since to recognize a belief as false is to stop believing it. Thus we can only say “I was wrong.” Call it the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Error: we can be wrong, or we can know it, but we can’t do both at the same time.”
― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

“By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view—and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable