If you think it’s simply enough to take advantage of the opportunities that arise in your life, you will fall short of greatness. Anyone sentient can do that. What you must do is learn how to press forward precisely when everyone around you sees disaster.

— Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way

The finite and limited character of human existence is more primordial than man himself

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

…a soapbox orator addresses a crowd on the glories of communism: “Come the revolution, everyone will eat strawberries and cream!” A man at the front whimpers, “But I don’t like strawberries and cream.” The speaker thunders, “Come the revolution, you will like strawberries and cream!”

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

I do not know if the IPv6 developers deliberately copied IPv4’s early design mistakes, or independently reinvented them.

— Michael Warren Lucas, Git Sync Murder

…every designer will recognize the Rational Model as only an ideal. It somehow describes how we think the design process ought to work, but not how it works in real life.

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