And not only we but the whole of Europe marvels, on such occasions, at our Russian passion: if one of us embraces Catholicism, then he’s bound to become a Jesuit, and of the most underground sort at that; if he becomes an atheist, he is bound to start demanding the eradication of belief in God by force, which means by the sword! Why is that, why is there such frenzy all at once? You really don’t know? Because he has found his fatherland, which he had missed here, and he rejoices; he has found the shore, the land, and he rushes to kiss it! It’s not only from vainglory, not only from nasty, vainglorious feelings that Russian atheists and Russian Jesuits proceed, but from spiritual pain, spiritual thirst, from the longing for a lofty cause, a firm shore, a native land, in which we’ve ceased to believe because we’ve never known it!

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

…power is given only to the one who dares to reach down and take it.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

This is a book about a radical idea…One that has long been known to make rulers nervous…That most people, deep down, are pretty decent.

— Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

…our ubiquitous quality improvement programs just make real quality improvement harder.

— Tom DeMarco, Slack

In the long-term, companies either learn to explore, or they fade away; this isn’t an ignorable challenge.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer