Buddhism and other ethics of compassion are indeed a kind of wheelbarrow, in which we can place our sorrows and defects without displacing their importance (their weight), but allowing us to move.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

Committing to productivity alone is like committing to only inhaling, never exhaling. That kind of commitment will kill you.

— Dan Charnas, Everything in Its Place

…the amount of workplace aggression and stress I see in people is inversely correlated with the importance of the work they’re doing…

— David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

…very often, and even most often, choice is utterly and stubbornly opposed to reason… and… and… do you know that that, too, is profitable, sometimes even praiseworthy?

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From the Underground

I’m not saying black boxes are useless. I’m saying that if I’m not allowed to open ‘em up—if I have to do everything with a library or something like this, I would come up with much, much worse results and much slower.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work