All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei)

— Haim Shapira, Eight Lessons on Infinity

Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once.

— Mikhail Bulgakov, a

Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you’ve read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.

— Gerald Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

A nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in.

— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

We should always be thinking of the simplest route to success, not the coolest, not the one with the most tech that we can add to our CVs or résumés.

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering