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You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

By Ken Thompson

2 ranked Hiighlights

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

By Franz Kafka

7 ranked Hiighlights

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.

By Joan Didion

7 ranked Hiighlights

Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered.

By Nan Shepherd

7 ranked Hiighlights

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

By Ursula K. Le Guin

7 ranked Hiighlights

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

By Adam Smith

7 ranked Hiighlights

We will need writers who can remember freedom.

By Ursula K. Le Guin

7 ranked Hiighlights

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped.

By Atul Gawande

7 ranked Hiighlights

Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.

By bell hooks

7 ranked Hiighlights

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

By Oliver Sacks

7 ranked Hiighlights

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

By Simone Weil

7 ranked Hiighlights

Fears of superintelligent A.I. are best understood as a displacement of our fears of capitalism.

By Ted Chiang

7 ranked Hiighlights

I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own.

By Clarice Lispector

7 ranked Hiighlights

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

By Kurt Vonnegut

14 ranked Hiighlights

To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult.

By Bruno Munari

7 ranked Hiighlights

If an opportunity is exciting enough to drop whatever you're doing right now, then it's a yes. If it's not, then perhaps you should think twice.

By James Clear

7 ranked Hiighlights

Show me a heat map of passages—hottest to coldest. Which chapters in this Obama biography should I absolutely not miss?

By Craig Mod

9 ranked Hiighlights

If a book’s contents can be adequately summed up, so that you really don’t miss anything by reading the summary, it is not actually a book worth reading.

By Austin Kleon

9 ranked Hiighlights