The finite and limited character of human existence is more primordial than man himself

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

…a soapbox orator addresses a crowd on the glories of communism: “Come the revolution, everyone will eat strawberries and cream!” A man at the front whimpers, “But I don’t like strawberries and cream.” The speaker thunders, “Come the revolution, you will like strawberries and cream!”

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

I do not know if the IPv6 developers deliberately copied IPv4’s early design mistakes, or independently reinvented them.

— Michael Warren Lucas, Git Sync Murder

…every designer will recognize the Rational Model as only an ideal. It somehow describes how we think the design process ought to work, but not how it works in real life.

— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design

Creativity paradox number 1: The more a creative person knows about the subject of focus, the less the need for creativity….
Creativity paradox number 2: In order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others….
Creativity paradox number 3: Creativity paradoxes 1 and 2 do not agree with each other.

— Robert L. Glass and Tom DeMarco, Software Creativity 2.0