Each of us is limited by circumstance, but not by imagination.

— Francis Su, Mathematics for Human Flourishing

…if there are multiple ways to understand an idea, you have the power to choose the one that makes the problem easiest to solve with the tools that you have.

— Francis Su, Mathematics for Human Flourishing

People who are inclined to feel poor and oppressed construe everything Microsoft does as some sinister Orwellian plot.

— Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning…Was the Command Line

“influence without authority” is one of the most powerful leadership traits that you can develop.

— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google

I suspect that they put Socrates to death because there is something terribly unattractive, alienating, and nonhuman in thinking with too much clarity.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes