Brian Hamburg

“He’s not so bad, he thought. He’s graceful in defeat. That’s a quality that belongs to a phoenix among men. • • • “What’s so impressive about that? I never get mad when my father beats me at checkers. I know I just have to get better.” “Those are wise words. Not everyone sees a loss as an opportunity.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“There should be a children’s song “If you’re happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad watch the football game.”
― Jim Gaffigan, Dad Is Fat

“It should freak you out that gangsters can agree on a code of behavior but designers can’t. Crime is more organized than design.”
― Mike Monteiro, Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

“Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society.”
― Greg Lukianoff, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure