So, you want to be an expert? You need to budget about ten years of effort, regardless of the subject area.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

I do not know, I cannot imagine, any group which does not include among its current ideas an enormous dose of lies. That being the case, the alternative is inevitable: either one must like falsehood, or one must dislike the familiar setting of daily life.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought

Automation did, in fact, lead to mass unemployment. We have simply stopped the gap by adding dummy jobs that are effectively made up.

— David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

Another common, costly mistake is to build a complex infrastructure and use industrial-strength tools for a project that doesn’t need them.

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

I have, indeed, been taking offense all my life because I enjoyed it and felt it was beautiful. It is not only pleasurable, it is also esthetically satisfying to feel offended.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov