self-delusion

Screwing everyone for his own benefit is one thing, screwing everyone for self-delusion is a whole other level.

Is that really a hobby, or is it self-delusion used to avoid committing oneself to a project?

This is a good way of looking at it - it's a form of self-delusion, if you ask me.

This requires an act of willful blindness and ideologically driven self-delusion on the same level as believing that the Earth is 6000 years old and mankind coexisted with dinosaurs.

Perhaps the reason Jobs has been convincing to so many followers is because of the power of his own self-delusion.

The idea that technology is apolitical is a common misconception, or self-delusion, of too many engineers.

Trying to pass it off as cleverness is just self-delusion, and none of the excuses your team has written are justifiable.

It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities.

I'm rather partial to imposing a tax on self-delusion and refusing to update beliefs in face of overwhelming evidence.

And that type of self-delusion is part of the story too.

The only thing we should try to cure is our self-delusion and our fear.

This is a bad habit that leads to self-delusion.

“If meritocracy exists anywhere on earth, it is in Silicon Valley” Is this PR, self-delusion intended to make the (powerful) speaker not feel bad, selective blindness or just mind-boggling ignorance?