…in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, there was a tacit understanding in much of the industrialized world that if productivity in a certain enterprise improved, a certain share of the increased profits would be redistributed to the workers in the form of improved wages and benefits. Since the eighties, this is no longer the case.

— David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

…while knowledge is increasingly open-source, ignorance is, too.

— Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape

Waste not your life in a world devoid of taste, which contains God but not the Devil

— Payam-e-Mashriq, Paradise

Stay interested in life, whoever you are, for that is the best that you can reasonably hope for from it – even while you know that, ultimately speaking, life is not interested in you…

— Grant Bartley, The Last Thought

A developer who can’t discuss modularity and information hiding is like a basketball player who can’t dribble.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development