If underground militant cells were setting off hundreds of bombs and robbing banks around the country these days, of course, America would be crazed, consumed, talking of nothing else, and probably under martial law. The bombings back then seldom made the national news because a reasonable and rational Establishment was still in charge of the media discourse, determined to help Americans remain reasonable and rational.

— Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland

Armies of programmers with rudimentary skills can produce certain kinds of software, but not the kind that saves a company in its eleventh hour.

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

Jeremy Bentham said the purpose of laws is to produce the best consequences for the greatest number of people.

— Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. . .

The point is that all new disciplines suffer through a chaotic but necessary explosion of ideas, notation, and representation. But then the dust settles, cooler heads forge a consensus, and a standard ideology and notation arises. And once that happens, the Tower of Babel is reversed, and communication between practitioners and disciplines increases. And that is when real progress is made.

— Robert C. Martin, We, Programmers

The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.

— James Clear, Atomic Habits