A solution that involves a eureka moment is generally very difficult, if not impossible, to derive systematically through a computation because it requires reasoning on a subtle level about objects and their properties.

— Martin Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm

Great music is valid metaphysics.

— Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Maybe that’s precisely what quantum physics or metaphysics is telling us. If we exist, that means we’re being watched. There is something or someone that never lets us out of its sight.

— Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, The Physics of Sorrow

Particularly when the organization is big, the pressure to run projects the same way everyone else does, so that they look correct even at the expense of being successful, is significant.

— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire

It’s common for new initiatives to fail because existing employees don’t embrace them. But it’s lazy to blame the employees, when they probably had perfectly good reasons to withhold their support.

— Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai, Hack Your Bureaucracy