Manu

“They had not learned together, but rather each of them, man or woman, had listened to one of the machines as if there were no one in the world but those two. And because there was so much knowledge and only a few to learn it, the machines had taught each differently”
― Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun

“Broadly speaking, the human brain is a collection of software hacks compiled into a single, somehow-functional unit. Each “feature” was added as a random mutation that solved some specific problem to increase our odds of survival. In short, the human brain is a mess.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Not to cleave to any person, be it even the dearest — every person is a prison and also a recess.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“It is certainly in everyone’s interest that the ship does not founder but, I put it to you, it is perhaps not in the interest of the rowers that they know of every shoal avoided, every collision fended off. It would only serve to worry them and put them off their stroke. What the rowers need to know is how to row, hmm?”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth