…monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order.

— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are not clothed. . . . We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang, Accessory to War

Each person has their own individual pieces of the puzzle, but those pieces need to be assembled by them, not for them.

— David Komlos and David Benjamin, Cracking Complexity

…model divergences are as likely to come from political fragmentation and differing management priorities as from technical concerns.

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

…what is seeing without thinking. We think of seeing as simple contact with reality. But when we see objects repeatedly, to the point of familiarity, they become invisible; the use of the mind, beyond the eyes alone, is required to see them for what they are.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought