It is important to note that the definition doesn’t mandate any specific framework, API, or feature. As long as you are continuously reading data from an unbounded dataset, doing something to it, and emitting output, you are doing stream processing.

— Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, and Todd Palino, Kafka

…historical narratives … are verbal fictions, the contents of which are as much invented as found and the forms of which have more in common with their counterparts in literature than they have with those in the sciences.

— Hayden White, Tropics of Discourse

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

— Blaise Pascal and A. J. Krailsheimer, Pensées

How did hunter-gatherers maintain their egalitarian lifestyle for millennia when young modern democracies seem to be falling apart all around the globe? The answer: it is in their genes.

— Andreas Hofer and Adrienn Raczi, Born Different

MEANINGFUL TECHNOLOGY CHANGE IN A very large organization is very rarely just about the technology. It’s about people, it’s about leadership, and it’s about creating a culture that encourages safe-to-fail experiments and smart risk taking instead of creating fear among those who are expected to move the organization forward.

— Stephen Orban, Ahead in the Cloud