Rumors had persisted for years that the ARPANET had been built to protect national security in the face of a nuclear attack. It was a myth that had gone unchallenged long enough to become widely accepted as fact.

— Matthew Lyon and Katie Hafner, Where Wizards Stay Up Late

Their findings can be summarized in three statements which Aldous Huxley, following Leibnitz, has called the Perennial Philosophy because they appear in every age and civilization: (1) there is an infinite, changeless reality beneath the world of change; (2) this same reality lies at the core of every human personality; (3) the purpose of life is to discover this reality experientially: that is, to realize God while here on earth.

— Eknath Easwaran Ed., The Bhagavad Gita

Coders are often happy to perform the interesting and rewarding work on core technologies for free at night but, since that means they have less and less incentive to think about how such creations will ultimately be made compatible, that means the same coders are reduced during the day to the tedious (but paid) work of making them fit together.

— David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

Not to believe that there is a God or to believe that there is not a God is one thing; to resign oneself to there not being a God is another thing, and it is a terrible and inhuman thing; but not to wish that there be a God exceeds every other moral monstrosity; although, as a matter of fact, those who deny God deny Him because of their despair at not finding Him.

— Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

It is important to emphasize that in professional environments, the ability to play the role is generally far more important than the ability to actually do the work.

— David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs