Mohammad Abu Shaban

“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“We live under the knowledge illusion because we fail to draw an accurate line between what is inside and outside our heads. And we fail because there is no sharp line. So we frequently don’t know what we don’t know.”
― Steven Sloman, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

“I have come to believe that books have souls—why else would I be so reluctant to throw one away?”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“Efficiency' has come to mean vesting more and more power to managers, supervisors, and presumed 'efficiency experts,' so that actual producers have almost zero autonomy.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory