Daniel J. Levitin:

Instead of reaping the big rewards that come from sustained, focused effort, we instead reap empty rewards from completing a thousand little sugar-coated tasks.

Jennifer Senior:

Never underestimate the hedonic power of anticipation.

Noteworthy:

They say delayed gratification isn't all it's cracked up to be.

"We'll see", I tell them. "We'll see."

Maciej Ceglowski:

Fixing the world with software is like giving yourself a haircut with a lawn mower. It works in theory, but there's no room for error in the implementation.

Frank Chimero:

Using technology to solve the problems it causes is as futile as cleaning a grass stain by rubbing grass on it.

Maria Konnikova:

We systematically undervalue sleep, and yet it is fundamental to our present and future performance. And unlike most anything else, sleep is one of the few things we have to do ourselves. No one can do it for you.

William Deresiewicz:

You are continuously bombarding yourself with a stream of other people's thoughts. You are marinating yourself in the conventional wisdom. In other people's reality: for others, not for yourself. You are creating a cacophony in which it is impossible to hear your own voice, whether it's yourself you're thinking about or anything else.

T. S. Eliot:

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

Sasha Chapman:

It's easier not to think about where our food comes from, or the risks it carries.

Werner Herzog:

Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey.

Jonathan Self:

There's more bacteria on a shopping trolley handle than there is on a raw chicken.

Poultry Science:

If humans grew at the same rate as modern chickens, a human would weigh 660 pounds by the age of eight weeks.

Stephen Colbert:

I felt so dirty. I felt like a piece of meat. I find being a piece of meat very exciting.

Roger Highfield:

The reality is that, despite fears that our children are "pumped full of chemicals" everything is made of chemicals, down to the proteins, hormones and genetic materials in our cells.

Robin Sloan:

I wear my own skin and it fights me every day.

Scott Degenaer:

B.L.M.: They've got SWAT teams. Why do they have to have SWAT teams?

Douglasville Deputy Chief Gary E. Sparks:

It's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Molly Young:

Members of the Marvel security team on the set spoke of "bloggers" the way Dick Cheney once invoked a "global terror network" -- in order to suggest a cabalistic threat, to make a rhetorical point about risk, to justify seemingly irrational behavior, or all three.

Brittany Bronson:

The only way to reason with an illusion is to stop believing it.

Maciej Ceglowski:

Hard constraints are the midwife to good design. The past couple of decades have left us with what I call an exponential hangover. This exponential hangover leads to a feeling of exponential despair.

T. S. Eliot:

In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Ta-Nehisi Coates:

Perhaps struggle is all we have.

Mark Bergen:

The deep learning renaissance began, like so much on the Internet, with cats.

Warren Buffett:

If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

Jill Lepore:

Copyright is the elephant in the archive.

Elizabeth Kolbert:

In 2011 alone, an estimated twenty-five thousand African elephants were killed for their ivory; this comes to almost seventy a day, or nearly three an hour. Since then, an additional forty-five thousand African elephants -- about ten per cent of the total population -- have been slaughtered.

Philip Zimbardo:

There is a movie called "Experimenter," about Stanley Milgram's research, which premiered at Sundance, and the second half is confusing. At one point, Milgram walks out of his lab, and behind him is a huge elephant. I saw the director at Sundance, and I said, "Why did you have an elephant?" He said, "People like elephants."

Japan Ganesh:

Celebrities convey their egos through magisterial insouciance; David Byrne, apparently bereft of ego, is as alert as a caffeinated meerkat.

Martin McKeay:

Once you've paid, expect the vultures to start circling.

Kathryn Schulz:

The average groundhog displaces nearly two tons of soil while building its home.

Alma Guillermoprieto:

Mexico's Attorney General, Arely Gómez, stares wistfully into the black hole, as if hoping that a white rabbit might suddenly pop out of it. The rabbit, however, had already hopped onto an unknown mode of transportation a good twelve hours earlier.

Kathryn Schulz:

In the current use of "rabbit hole," we are no longer necessarily bound for a wonderland. We're just in a long attentional free fall, with no clear destination and all manner of strange things flashing past.

Zeynep Tufekci:

We are building skyscraper favelas in code --  in earthquake zones.

Wes Felter:

We're getting into interest-only adjustable-rate subprime technical debt.

Zeynep Tufekci:

The big problem we face isn't coordinated cyber-terrorism, it's that software sucks. Software sucks for many reasons, all of which go deep, are entangled, and expensive to fix. (Or, everything is broken, eventually). This is a major headache, and a real worry as software eats more and more of the world.

Robert Graham:

SQLi, phishing, bad passwords, and lack of patches are the Four Horsemen of the cybersecurity apocalypse, not software quality.

Jeff Atwood:

A ransomware culture ... does not feel very far off ...

Christine Porath:

You are always in front of some jury.

Amanda Hess:

The modern revelation ["I can't even"] doubles as a warning: Reveal less.

Danny Yadron:

In an interview, he wouldn't say whether Moxie Marlinspike was his birth name.

Liliana Segura:

The truth is, yes, even "hello" can feel like an unwelcome demand.

Teddy Wayne:

Now, even people who don't work in film know what the 'L.A. no' is: that silence is a reply.

Donald Rumsfeld:

Simply because a problem is shown to exist doesn't necessarily follow that there is a solution.

James Comey:

We're trying to show humility to say we don't know what would be best.

Jenna McLaughlin:

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., thanked Comey for his display of "humility" in not presenting a solution.

T. S. Eliot:

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

Neal Stephenson:

Hackworth was a forger, Dr. X was a honer. The distinction was at least as old as the digital computer. Forgers created a new technology and then forged on to the next project, having explored only the outlines of its potential. Honers got less respect because they appeared to sit still technologically, playing around with systems that were no longer start, hacking them for all they were worth, getting them to do things the forgers had never envisioned.

The Local:

The missile system carried out "unexplained" orders. It was not immediately clear when these orders were carried out and what they were.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai:

As part of Hacking Team's "crisis procedure," it could have killed their [customers'] operations remotely. The company, in fact, has "a backdoor" into every customer's software, giving it the ability to suspend it or shut it down -- something that even customers aren't told about.

Adriel Desautels:

HackingTeam is just one example of why the zero-day exploit market needs to be thoughtfully regulated.

Angela Simpson:

The multistakeholder process on vulnerability research and disclosure we announce today is a small, but important, piece of the puzzle.

Malcolm Gladwell:

If things go wrong with a puzzle, identifying the culprit is easy: it's the person who withheld information. Mysteries, though, are a lot murkier: sometimes the information we've been given is inadequate, and sometimes we aren't very smart about making sense of what we've been given, and sometimes the question itself cannot be answered. Puzzles come to satisfying conclusions. Mysteries often don't.

Freeman Dyson:

The truths of science are so profoundly concealed that the only thing we can really be sure of is that much of what we expect to happen won't come to pass.