But what is happiness except a simple harmony between man and the life he leads?

— Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

Strong managers don’t care when team members cut their hair or whether they wear ties. Their pride is tied only to their staff’s accomplishments.

— Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Peopleware

Wasting programmer time is the true inefficiency, not wasting machine time. This will become ever more clear as computers get faster.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

The introduction of information theory and its applications to thermodynamics has led to the conclusion that entropy, a basic concept of that science, is a measure of the observer’s ignorance of the atomic details of the system.

— Douglas R Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, The Mind’s I

I know of no philosophical theist who does not agree with Ingersoll that the God of the Pentateuch is “a false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain, and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, and changeable, infamous and hideous … .”

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener