The beautiful thing about chess is that it teaches you the humility of defeat.

There’s no sex in your violence.

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I’d think “no, actually I’m a giraffe”.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.

It's very comfortable to think [the users are stupid] because it leaves you feeling superior and means you don't have to do any work to fix the problem; instead you think you should fix the users. Unfortunately, as I have learned from long experience, beating stupid people doesn't make them any smarter.