We don’t even need guards anymore. We love being prisoners so much, we just think the bars are there to keep us safe.

— Gene Kim, The Unicorn Project

…nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we’d all drown in prejudices.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

We promise “till death do us part” when our love is young and good-looking and when life is full of promise, but it is in failure or decrepitude or at the hospital bed that we learn what we meant and why.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought

Postmodernism is the academic far Left’s epistemological strategy for responding to the crisis caused by the failures of socialism in theory and in practice.

— Stephen R. C. Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism

Ask yourself, “How would we work if we had enough time?” If the answer is wildly different from what you are actually doing, then no, there is not enough time to do your work.

— Kent Beck, Tidy First?