If you think people have scar tissue, you should see organizations. Each time there’s a disaster, they create a process to prevent future disasters of that type. Eventually they accrete a thick layer of these processes that prevents them from moving. Then they die.
-Paul Graham, Twitter, August 22, 2022
Tag: Quotes
Thomas Mann on Writers
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1942
XML Is Like Violence
XML is like violence: if it doesn’t solve your problem, you aren’t using enough of it.
–Unknown
To Speak The Truth
To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.
-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, 1997 Penguin Edition
Nietzsche on Madness
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 156.
Edward Snowden on the Right to Privacy
Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
-Edward Snowden, 2015