Anamaria Elek

“Here I was, smack in the center of everything without a clue. At every turn, I'd been off base, way off the mark. Of course, you can say the same about my whole life. In that sense, I suppose I had no one to blame.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“It would have been so easy if only I could have cried. But crying wasn't an option, because I felt that far ahead of me there was something really worth crying about.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“You should be excited to meet new people and try new things—to assume the best about them, in the absence of evidence to the contrary. In the long run, optimism is the best prevention for regret.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions