…[incompleteness theorems] apply to axiomatic formal systems or computers in which one can do arithmetic. Thus, they do not apply to many kinds of texts, such as religious texts—the Bible, Koran, Vedas, Buddhist sutras—and typically not even to theories in the natural sciences.

— Richard Tieszen, Simply Gödel

What set everything going in the first place, before the Big Bang? This question terrifies the water out of us if we really grasp it. We almost instinctively grab for some pose, some ‘cause,’ crutch, drug, or religion—or even another person—that will let us ignore this hideous mystery, that will create alibis for our failure to find a purpose in life. (Although there are some who frankly don’t give a shit; they are the lucky ones.)

— Subgenius Foundation, Book of the Subgenius

…some developers seem to like to make things go fast, but they spend time optimizing their code before they know that it’s slow! This is like a charity sending food to rich people and saying, “We just wanted to help people!”

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity

It’s not that we have less willpower than we used to, but rather that modern life immerses us daily in a set of temptations far more evolved than we are.

— Daniel Akst, Temptation

…almost every piece of software written eventually winds up being modified to solve a different problem than what it was designed for.

— Adam Barr, The Problem With Software