…the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.

— James Clear, Atomic Habits

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

— Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

Have you involved the project teams in contributing ideas and developing solutions? If you do all this stuff and then hand it to them and expect them to implement it, you’re working at them, not with them. And when you work at people, they have a natural tendency to push back. They’re the folks who have done all the research into the problems they’re working on, so they will have a lot to contribute.

— Janice Fraser, Jason Fraser, and Eric Ries, Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama

…in practice master plans fail—because they create totalitarian order, not organic order.

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

…much of the high-tech world we live in today, the conquest of space, the extraordinary advances in biology and medicine, were spurred on by one man’s monomania and the need to develop electronic computers to calculate whether an H-bomb could be built or not.

— George Dyson, Turing’s Cathedral