A hacker would consider being asked to write add x to y giving z instead of z = x + y as something between an insult to his intelligence and a sin against God.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

…you can’t expect educators, employers, or even friends to motivate you to learn something.

— Jonathan A. Levi, The Only Skill That Matters

We don’t even need guards anymore. We love being prisoners so much, we just think the bars are there to keep us safe.

— Gene Kim, The Unicorn Project

…nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we’d all drown in prejudices.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

We promise “till death do us part” when our love is young and good-looking and when life is full of promise, but it is in failure or decrepitude or at the hospital bed that we learn what we meant and why.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought