The software engineering community has given much attention to its development processes. It has needed to, for I know of few design communities where average practice is so far behind best practice, and where worst practice is so far behind average practice.

— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design

A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.

— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

…there is no more reason to believe ideas are evolving towards some ultimate truth than there is to think that organisms are evolving towards some ultimate being.

— Philip Stokes, Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers

Zeus intended that man, notwithstanding the evils oppressing him, should continue to live and not rid himself of life, but keep on making himself miserable. For this purpose, he bestowed hope upon man: it is, in truth, the greatest of evils for it lengthens the ordeal of man

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

Comparative analysis suggests there is a direct relation however between the level of violence employed in a bureaucratic system, and the level of absurdity and ignorance it is seen to produce.

— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules