Beau

“Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a liability. But the more anonymously we engage with others, the less we experience the human repercussions of what we say and do. By resisting the temptation to engage from the apparent safety of anonymity, we remain accountable and present - and are much more likely to bring our humanity with us into the digital realm”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

“The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything upon you. Only it turns out it doesn’t feel like that at all. We don’t feel as if we had freely chosen our online practices. We feel instead that they are habits we have helplessly picked up or that history has enforced, that we are not distributing our attention as we intend or even like to”
― Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”
― Albert Einstein

“As the amount of code in a project grows, it gradually surpasses understanding. The amount of time it takes to figure out what to change just keeps increasing.”
― Michael C. Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code