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“As soon as we know that we are wrong, we aren’t wrong anymore, since to recognize a belief as false is to stop believing it. Thus we can only say “I was wrong.” Call it the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Error: we can be wrong, or we can know it, but we can’t do both at the same time.”
― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

“By mindfully choosing our habits, we harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.”
― Gretchen Rubin, Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life

“Like how money is just squiggles on paper or on a screen until it determines whether you can eat lunch, words are just meat twitches until they determine whether you can get a job—or whether someone will even deign to tell you where the shoe section is.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“Could we not put our tremendous computing power (both human and mechanical) to better use than upholding the prejudices of a bunch of aristocrats from the eighteenth century”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language