Those who do not listen to their boredom when reading, like those who pay no attention to pain, may be increasing their suffering unnecessarily.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

So there are many concepts which the fundamentalist atheists have failed to address. They buy into the traditional monotheist’s implicit claim that the God they deny is not only loving, but also sane and efficient. They do not address these other possibilities I’ve mentioned:

• That there is a God, but he/she is barking mad (the Lovecraft/Fort hypothesis);
• That there is a loving God who is hopelessly inefficient (the Cabell hypothesis);
• That there is a God, but he/she is a malicious trickster (the Mccue hypothesis);
• That there are several gods with divergent opinions (the Homer hypothesis).
• There are good and evil beings who are equally powerful (the Zoroastrian hypothesis).

— Martin Jenkins, Evil From the Outside

Given that programmers, as a species, introduced entire classes of security errors in C code just to avoid a little extra typing, it’s understandable why people are unwilling to be the first person into the unit test breach.

— Adam Barr, The Problem With Software

My experience with being on pedestals is that, inevitably, you fall off…

— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.

— Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle