“Some special conpanies see trust as the pulic good.”

“human beings are inherently social and trusting animals.”

“one that we are just beginning to understand- is that trust, once eroded, is very hard to restore.”

“...[T]he distance Boston drivers generally maintain from the car in front of them is visible only with a good microscope.”

“Maybe we feel meaning only when we deal with something bigger. Perhaps we hope that someone else, especially someone important to us, will ascribe value to what we've produced? Maybe we need the illusion that our work might one day matter to many people. That it might be of some value in the big, broad world out there [...]? Most likely it is all of these. But fundamentally, I think that almost any aspect of meaning [...] can be sufficient to drive our behaviour. As long as we are doing something that is somewhat connected to our self image, it can fuel our motivation and get us to work much harder.”

“The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.”

“we usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires-with how we want to view ourselves-than with reality”