Zane W Pickett

Misunderstandings are like the compression artifacts of language.

To ignore culture as a foundational part of a society's infrastructure is to misunderstand the reasons we build roads.

Just because you have consensus doesn't make it a good idea; In fact most great ideas only reached consensus after they were built.

When talking through solutions, the goal is not to find solutions for all the problems your solution creates, but to have less problems.

If we convince everyone to do the right action for the wrong reasons, we risk having everyone commit the wrong actions for the right reasons

The travesty of modern public opinion is the conflation of the concepts of legality and morality.

What if rather then being "temporarily disgraced millionaires", we are "temporarily fortunate workers"?

The war of politics isn't fought with facts trying to persuade the informed voter, it's bought with the margins of the gossip column.

“It’s just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile.”

If it's available, but you're unaware of its existence. Is it really available?

Rome is the mob. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it's the sand of the coliseum.

When someone says something is the future. It's normally the present; The future is a much harder thing to think about.

Humanity is a bubble.

Humanity is fleeting notion of what was, subverted by what will be.

Science is the art of perfection through understanding.

I worry about about how most people consider the legality of an action long before they consider the morality of it, if they ever do..

If we truly think that everyone should have a fair chance in our society we have to build a system that effectivly removes early life stress

I am worried that gig economy will entrench the prohibition era technique of marginalizing workers, known as tipping, further into the norm

Most people choose to live in the world as it is. It's those who live in the world for what it can be, who get to dictate what the world is.