You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.