To exercise the love of learning is to flee what is worst in us for the sake of the better, to reach for more in the face of what is not enough.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought

Software engineering is fundamentally a human discipline.

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Understanding Software

…product processes are, properly, designed for follow-on products. For innovation, one must step outside of process.

— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design

Ability is discounted without credentials, but the ability to purchase credentials rests, more often than not, on family wealth.

— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules

Brian Little doubts that most people really would like to be like those creative people, had they known about all the catches that came with the territory: eccentricity, social isolation or higher risk for depression and anxiety to list a few of them. There are countless examples of highly regarded creative people who failed in ‘Life’. Nicola Tesla and Vincent van Gogh, to name just two hunter-gatherer types, both died lonely and in poverty.

— Andreas Hofer and Adrienn Raczi, Born Different