Bettina Stangneth:

Humans simply prefer hope to despair. The theory of the banality of evil is a theory of hope: If evil arises from ignorance, the solution is as easy as a project of enlightenment. If we help people think for themselves, the world will be better. But -- and this is an ugly "but" -- there is an important difference between an inability to think and an unwillingness to accept thinking as worthwhile.

Pendleton Ward:

I love my comfort zone. I spent a long time building my comfort zone. It's precious to me, and I love it and I want it.

Jeff Bezos via Jason Fried:

The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved.

Errol Morris:

I sometimes think of myself as being as cynical as one can be. The world is bad and can't be better. But even so, I believe that one goal for humanity should be to extend sympathy where it has never been extended before. To stand up, even in some small way, against injustice. Maybe it all comes down to annoyance. Does the world really have to be this way? Why can't it be just a little bit better?

Helaine Olen:

Pick a cause, and resolve to fight for change.

Tim Cook:

I think that anyone that thinks they have it all down is not looking hard enough, not looking deep enough, or not raising the bar. From our point of view, we don't want to find zero issues. If we're finding zero issues, our bar is in the wrong place. So we begin to raise the bar to find issues, and we keep doing this. If you're doing that, you're always finding something.

Jim Jarmusch:

I hunt -- in the forest of interesting ideas.

Thomas Wells:

How can you criticise such manipulation if you can't see it? How can you demand your freedom back if you never actually lost it?

Abigail Zuger:

Sometimes the only sure way to gain control is first to relinquish it.