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“Most people have difficulty thinking of themselves as just another animal. They refuse to face the fact that 96% of what can be found in their bodies can also be found inside a pig or a horse or that our DNA is 97. 5% identical to that of a gorilla and 98. 4% to that of a chimpanzee. The only thing that makes us different from other animals is our ability to think and make forward plans.”
― Allan Pease Barbara Pease, Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It

“I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.”
― Linus Torvalds

“Almost none of the students in any major showed a consistent understanding of how to apply methods of evaluating truth they had learned in their own discipline to other areas.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty,” he said, “at least for me.”
― Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe