…the most harmful dragon we chase is the one that makes us think we can change things that are simply not ours to change.

— Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way

Experimentation is the way to learn what works and doesn’t. Trying to avoid missteps in design will result in a lower quality result because it will be based on less experience. And it can easily take longer than a series of quick experiments.

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

…aim at fault tolerance instead of fault avoidance, because avoidance will not be fully successful.

— Jamie Allen, Reactive Design Patterns

So much of sticking with things is believing you can do it. That belief comes from self-worth. And that comes from how others have made us feel in our lives.

— Angela Duckworth, Grit

A distinguished researcher once commented to me that a real scientist is someone who can think about a subject while talking to his or her spouse about something else.

— Edward O. Wilson, Letters to a Young Scientist