Resisters of scientific thinking often object that some things just can’t be quantified. Yet unless they are willing to speak only of issues that are black or white and to foreswear using the words more, less, better, and worse (and for that matter the suffix –er), they are making claims that are inherently quantitative.

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

Is anyone surprised at being cold in winter? At being sick at sea? Or at being jostled in the street? The mind is strong enough to bear those evils for which it is prepared

— Seneca, On Anger

…the devil is in the details—and the angels are too.

— Daniel Jackson, The Essence of Software

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

— Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Peopleware

To hope, is to act as if you await the possibility of good

— Søren Kierkegaard, The Works of Love