Deep down, many engineers secretly wish to be seen as geniuses.

— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google

The wise man will not despise himself even if he has the stature of a dwarf, but he nevertheless wishes to be tall. The wise man is self-sufficient in that he can do without friends, not that he desires to do without them.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

The health of your product and the speed of development are not actually in opposition to each other, and products that release more frequently and in small batches have better quality outcomes.

— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google

Those who do not listen to their boredom when reading, like those who pay no attention to pain, may be increasing their suffering unnecessarily.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

So there are many concepts which the fundamentalist atheists have failed to address. They buy into the traditional monotheist’s implicit claim that the God they deny is not only loving, but also sane and efficient. They do not address these other possibilities I’ve mentioned:

• That there is a God, but he/she is barking mad (the Lovecraft/Fort hypothesis);
• That there is a loving God who is hopelessly inefficient (the Cabell hypothesis);
• That there is a God, but he/she is a malicious trickster (the Mccue hypothesis);
• That there are several gods with divergent opinions (the Homer hypothesis).
• There are good and evil beings who are equally powerful (the Zoroastrian hypothesis).

— Martin Jenkins, Evil From the Outside