All that we are is the result of all that we have thought. It is founded on thought. It is based on thought.

— Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

All drama in leadership and life is caused by the need to be right. Letting go of that need is a radical shift all great leaders make.

— Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Most of the time, business people aren’t nefarious characters trying to make things difficult for developers, but rather have priorities that drive inappropriate decisions from an architectural standpoint, which inadvertently constrain future options.

— Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua, Building Evolutionary Architectures

…diagnosing every setback as a symptom of a sick society is a cheap grab for gravitas.

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now