A society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without an opportunity to play with beautiful ideas and see the world in a new light. To grasp mathematical beauty is a unique and sublime experience that everyone should demand.

— Francis Su, Mathematics for Human Flourishing

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

The development of psychoanalysis in the twentieth century further disproved the conception of the individual as being entirely rational. It revealed the preponderant role of the subconscious, undermining the claims both that rationality is the defining feature of humanity, and that we are capable of pure, unbiased abstraction. It is now well-known that humans are contaminated by a long list of cognitive biases

— Manon Royet, French Philosophy Now

…being able to get a machine to do what you want is the closest thing we’ve got in technology to adolescent wish-fulfillment.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one’s native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

— Edsger W.Dijkstra, How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?