- "If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake." — Frank Wilczek, physicist
- "Cities are not loud. Cars are loud." — John Riecke
- "Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought." — Albert Szent-Györgyi paraphrasing Schopenhauer
- "If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking." — Leslie Lamport
- "Semper aut discere, aut docere, aut scribere dulce habui." — Bede
- "Writing doesn't just communicate ideas; it generates them." — Paul Graham
- "One cannot be free from a speed and size obsessed culture until you are free from the materialistic addictions, time famine mindset and comparative impulses that created it in the first place." — Tim Ferris
- "Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions." — Winston Churchill
- "Mediocrity happens when you don't plan." — Unknown
- "The more we obsess over something, the more we will try to control it. The more we try to control it, the more dissatisfied we become when it is something we cannot change. Be careful with what you try to control, for not everything can be." — Nicole Addison
- "What’s obvious to you is amazing to others." — Unknown
- "The cause of war is fiction, but the suffering is real." — Yuval Noah Harari (Homo Deus)
- "With will, fire becomes sweet water and without will even water becomes fire." — Romy
- "By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught." — Walt Whitman
- "Serving others is the price of rent for here on earth." — Muhammed Ali
- "Politics = who gets what, when, and how." — Harold Lasswell, writing in 1943
- "For most complex problems, the pursuit of perfect knowledge is asymptotic. Uncertainty, ignorance and indeterminacy are always present." — Sheila Jasanoff