- I’ve always thought I had a problem spending too much time on the computer and that if I could just get better, I would overcome the problem and it would be gone. It was my problem, and I had to come up with a solution. But that’s not really how things work: computers and the internet and all of that can be distracting and addicting for everyone. It’s not my problem. It’s a problem that exists, and no matter I do, the problem will still exist. It’s not really a matter of overcoming it. I don’t need to feel guilty because computers are distracting. That’s not my fault. But I can do the best I can with what I have to work with.
- Being really intelligent is when you can strip away the posturing and just have good and simple ideas without complicated phrasing and appeals to authority. Smart people don’t feel the need to sound smart, and often the simplest way to say something is the best.
- Money is very tempting to use to quantify basically everything, but the numbers usually don’t tell us much. What is more important is service and caring for other people in small and significant ways, and that can’t be quantified.
- The most important relationships are with our family.
Heather Hoyt 
1)They design media so we are distracted by it. If the YouTube homepage resembled Google, I wouldn’t always waste my time there.
2) I once went from one academic article to another and I realized that it wasn’t that academic articles were hard to understand, they are just poorly written. One article was a pain to read, the other was much easier and the level of technicality was the same.
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