…expensive objects can feel like plausible solutions to needs we don’t understand.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

There is no way to do partial TDD; it is an all-or-nothing discipline.

— Robert C. Martin, Clean Craftsmanship

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, and the beauty which the ageless mountains present to senses tried by the kaleidoscopic rush of events.

— Morris Kline, Mathematics for the Nonmathematician

The world was divided in two—good vs. bad, ours vs. yours. We, as luck would have it, had ended up our side, hence that of “the good guys.”

— Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, The Physics of Sorrow

We can go absolutely nowhere in argument without the laws of logic. However, these laws cannot themselves be proven, for we would have to presuppose them in order to construct an argument for them!

— Noah Harris, Ergoing Nowhere