Labels are ephemeral; they tell you about as much about the structure of a graph as the list of colors tells you about the structure of a painting.

— Richard J. Trudeau, Introduction to Graph Theory

The famous mantra “Move fast and break things” goes well beyond a surrender to the inevitability of acceleration, instead making acceleration an ethical imperative.

— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking

As with other aspects of rapid development, you have to do a lot of things right to succeed, but you only have to do one thing wrong to fail.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks.

— Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way

Though we possess the brainpower, the talent, and the tools to solve our most worrying problems, it’s enormously difficult to organize ourselves around the big questions.

— Pagan Kennedy, Inventology