Decius:

The challenge of information technology is facilitating the search for truth. Building an infrastructure for truth. Building a process that truly seeks the truth and a system for engaging in that process.

Rebecca Solnit:

Everything changes. Sometimes you have to change it yourself.

Neal Stephenson:

I worry that our inability to match the achievements of the 1960s space program might be symptomatic of a general failure of our society to get big things done.

Marco Arment:

Attention to detail, like most facets of truly good design, can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

Steve Jobs:

We spent a lot of time asking ourselves, "What is the purpose of a sofa?"

Rita King:

If people thought about dying more often, they'd think about living differently.

Jonathan Franzen:

The fundamental fact about all of us is that we're alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain and despair. And you can either run from this fact or, by way of love, you can embrace it.

Michael Chabon:

To attempt to live up to your children's expectations -- to hew to the ideals you espouse and the morals that you lay down for them -- is to guarantee a life of constant failure, a failure equivalent with parenthood itself.

Roger Scruton:

The decline of religion has deprived us of sacred things. But it has not deprived us of the need for them.

Patrick McKenzie:

Add revenue. Reduce costs. Those are your only goals.

Rebecca Solnit:

I believe that slowness is an act of resistance, not because slowness is a good in itself but because of all that it makes room for, the things that don't get measured and can't be bought.