John

“A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.

(DUTCH PROVERB)”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“Save us from the help of the well-meaning.”
― Eric L. Haney, Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit

“Your skills will increase with experience, which is the more fun cousin of practice. Practice involves putting your consciousness in suspended animation. Practicing is not living. But when you build your skills through an ever-changing sequence of experiences, you’re alive.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“All systems of domination work by enveloping us in their narrative and superstitions in such a way that we cannot see beyond them. Taking a step or two back, finding a way to inspect them from the outside, allows us a glimpse of how imperfect, how ludicrous, they are. Securing this glimpse keeps you in touch with reality.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails