Each person has their own individual pieces of the puzzle, but those pieces need to be assembled by them, not for them.

— David Komlos and David Benjamin, Cracking Complexity

…model divergences are as likely to come from political fragmentation and differing management priorities as from technical concerns.

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

…what is seeing without thinking. We think of seeing as simple contact with reality. But when we see objects repeatedly, to the point of familiarity, they become invisible; the use of the mind, beyond the eyes alone, is required to see them for what they are.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought

…we human beings, more like rainbows and mirages than like raindrops or boulders, are unpredictable self-writing poems — vague, metaphorical, ambiguous, and sometimes exceedingly beautiful.

— Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

The correspondence between reality and my beliefs comes from reality controlling my beliefs, not the other way around.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory