People who aren’t accustomed to having a lot of ideas of their own have a very poor grasp of the odds that others might independently come up with the same ideas.
— Teresa Neilsen Hayden, Rowling’s being sued for plagiarism again [via Boing Boing]
We silence the cognitive dissonance through self-imposed ignorance.
— Jonah Lehrer, quoting from his book How We Decide, in Cable News [via James]
