Organizations that refuse to take responsibility for the situations in which they put their own employees struggle to achieve operational excellence.

— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire

How cruel that they punished you for something you cannot change. We love you no matter what. Both imply that there is, in fact, something wrong with the person in question.

— Ali Almossawi and Alejandro Giraldo, An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language

My aim is not small, simple code, but rather code that I can change when I learn new things.

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering

Solitude is a good, and very different from loneliness.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

When scientists analyze people who appear to have tremendous self-control, it turns out those individuals aren’t all that different from those who are struggling. Instead, “disciplined” people are better at structuring their lives in a way that does not require heroic willpower and self-control. In other words, they spend less time in tempting situations.

— James Clear, Atomic Habits