"We are now so prone to confuse great building projects with great social achievements. We will have to admit that it is beyond the scope of anyone’s imagination to create a community. We must learn to cherish the communities we have, they are hard to come by." ― James C. Scott

"Korea and Taiwan went from being the world’s 33rd and 28th leading exporters in 1965 to being the 13th and 10th respectivelytwenty years later. At that point, both economies boasted greater manufacturing exports than the whole of Latin America." ― Joe Studwell

"If there is no black and white, there is yet lighter and darker, and not all grays are the same." ― Eliezer Yudkowsky

"Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you." ― Richard Feynman

"We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy." ― Haruki Murakami

"Tʜᴇʀᴇ's ɴᴏ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴍᴇ." ― Death

"Even victories ordained by the Heavens can be broken by the will of men. But blame doesn’t matter. Never has, never will. Villains must attend to reality or be swallowed by it." ― The Black Knight

"Snow can only live in the winter. When it nears a fire, it dies. That is its life. It may yearn for summer, but… it can only desire it. In my hand, the snow becomes water, because this is not its world…" ― Meng Hao

“And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star they won’t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they’re old enough to bear it and when they learn they’ll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed” ― Harry Potter

"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy." ― Scott Alexander

"If you take just one piece of information from this blog: Quantum computers would not solve hard search problems instantaneously by simply trying all the possible solutions at once." ― Scott Aaronson