As a rule of thumb, I estimate that a programming product costs at least three times as much as a debugged program with the same function.

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month

…there’s a hard way to get grit and an easy way. The hard way is to do it by yourself. The easy way is to use conformity—the basic human drive to fit in—because if you’re around a lot of people who are gritty, you’re going to act grittier.”

— Angela Duckworth, Grit

…the wicked man flees though no one pursues.

— Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, The Physics of Sorrow

In profound meditation, they found, when consciousness is so acutely focused that it is utterly withdrawn from the body and mind, it enters a kind of singularity in which the sense of a separate ego disappears. In this state, the supreme climax of meditation, the seers discovered a core of consciousness beyond time and change. They called it simply Atman, the Self.

— Eknath Easwaran Ed., The Bhagavad Gita

Here, the question seems to be “Should the world be understood via holism or via reductionism?” And the answer of “mu” here rejects the premises of the question, which are that one or the other must be chosen. By unasking the question, i reveals a wider truth: that there is a larger context into which both holistic and reductionistic explanations fit.

— Douglas R Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, The Mind’s I