Motaz Alfarraj

“A more promising hypothesis is that happiness comes from within and cannot be obtained by making the world conform to your desires. This idea was widespread in the ancient world: Buddha in India and the Stoic philosophers in ancient Greece and Rome all counseled people to break their emotional attachments to people and events, which are always unpredictable and uncontrollable, and to cultivate instead an attitude of acceptance. This ancient idea deserves respect, and it is certainly true that changing your mind is usually a more effective response to frustration than is changing the world.”
― Jonathan Haidt

“It's not man versus machine; it's man with machine versus man without. Data and intuition are like horse and rider, and you don't try to outrun a horse; you ride it.”
― Pedro Domingos

“We want to believe that human violence is somehow beyond our understanding, because as long as it remains a mystery, we have no duty to avoid it, explore it, or anticipate it. We need feel no responsibility for failing to read signals if there are none to read.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“learned that the time after a major incident offered a period of safety and the best rest,”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence