{ "quotes" : [
    {"quote":"I am thinking about something much more important than bombs, I am thinking about computers.","attribution":"John von Neumann"},
    {"quote":"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.","attribution":"Aristotle"},
    {"quote":"-there will never be a time in your life when you say, 'I wish I'd spent less time with people I love, and more time shopping.'","attribution":"Wil Wheaton"},
    {"quote":"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.","attribution":"Erica Jong"},
    {"quote":"We are all teachers. Whether we know it, or not. Whether we take responsibility for it, or not.","attribution":"Maya Angelou"},
    {"quote":"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.","attribution":"George Bernard Shaw"},
    {"quote":"Think of the computer not as a tool but as a medium.","attribution":"Brenda Laurel"},
    {"quote":"Identify the core human need, without reference to whether it is going to be served with bits, boom boxes or bowling balls.","attribution":"J. H. Murray"},
    {"quote":"We are, in sum, incomplete or unfinished animals who complete or finish ourselves through culture.","attribution":"Clifford Geertz"},
    {"quote":"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade.","attribution":"Benjamin Franklin"},
    {"quote":"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.","attribution":"Zig Ziglar"},
    {"quote":"Share the knowledge for free, sell the heavy atoms.","attribution":"Jay Rogers"},
    {"quote":"If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.","attribution":"Salman Rushdie"},
    {"quote":"There's what life gives you and what you do with it. Those are the only two forces that make you what you are. Deal with it. Embrace it.","attribution":"Largo, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (2008)"},
    {"quote":"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.","attribution":"Thomas Mann"},
    {"quote":"I did not have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one instead.","attribution":"Mark Twain"},
    {"quote":"The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.","attribution":"Julious Caesar 75bc"},
    {"quote":"The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.","attribution":"Fundamentals of Chess, 1883"},
    {"quote":"If you're the smartest man in the room, you're in the wrong room.","attribution":"Richard Tirendi"},
    {"quote":"Create your future from your future, not the past.","attribution":"Werner Erhard"},
    {"quote":"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.","attribution":"John Keats"},
    {"quote":"An entrepreneur is a self-employed person working 16 hours a day to avoid working 8 hours a day for someone else.","attribution":"Anonymous"},
    {"quote":"Live as though you were in the early days of a better nation.","attribution":"Cory Doctorow in the dedication to For the Win"},
    {"quote":"May you live in interesting times.","attribution":"Ancient Chinese Curse"},
    {"quote":"He loves to hear himself type.","attribution":"Gavin L. Vincent"},
    {"quote":"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.","attribution":"Albert Schweitzer"},
    {"quote":"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.","attribution":"Albert Einstein"},
    {"quote":"It is your response to winning and losing that makes you a winner or a loser.","attribution":"Harry Sheehy"},
    {"quote":"I believe if you want to live in a better world, you have to get off your ass and make it better.","attribution":"Jacque Fresco"},
    {"quote":"If you don't like change you are going to like irrelevance even less.","attribution":"Gen. Eric Shinseski"},
    {"quote":"Never believe in a meritocracy in which no one is funny-looking.","attribution":"Teresa Nielsen Hayden"},
    {"quote":"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.","attribution":"Robert Frost"},
    {"quote":"You say: It's ad-funded. I hear: I've settled for making something no one is willing to pay for.","attribution":"Chris Ashworth"},
    {"quote":"Men plan, God laughs.","attribution":"Yiddish Proverb"},
    {"quote":"We have failed to realise that we do not use language but that language uses us in ways we are yet to appreciate and master.","attribution":"Humberto Maturana"},
    {"quote":"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.","attribution":"Herbert Hoover"},
    {"quote":"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.","attribution":"Dr Seuss"},
    {"quote":"There are two ways to sleep well at night... be ignorant or be prepared.","attribution":"Simon Black"},
    {"quote":"Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.","attribution":"Louis Srygley"},
    {"quote":"And now for something completely gratuitous.","attribution":"Grant Imahara"},
    {"quote":"When everyone has a laptop [device] and connection to the world, then everyone owns a factory.","attribution":"Seth Godin"},
    {"quote":"Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.","attribution":"Dorothy Parker"},
    {"quote":"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.","attribution":"Ralph Waldo Emerson"},
    {"quote":"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.","attribution":"Anthony J. D'Angelo"},
    {"quote":"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.","attribution":"Lewis Carroll"},
    {"quote":"Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.","attribution":"Jerry Seinfeld"},
    {"quote":"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.","attribution":"Henry David Thoreau"},
    {"quote":"Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud. After a while, you realise the pig is enjoying it.","attribution":"Jamie Lawrence"},
    {"quote":"Those who don't build must burn.","attribution":"Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451"},
    {"quote":"It takes just a brief, creative instant to visualize something great that will take seven years of hard work to make real.","attribution":"Alan Cooper"},
    {"quote":"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?","attribution":"Dr. Seuss"},
    {"quote":"The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.","attribution":"Tom Landry"},
    {"quote":"I am sad how well arbitrary deadlines work.","attribution":"Michael Lopp"},
    {"quote":"We have outsourced our relationship with uncertainty to certainty merchants.","attribution":"Diego Espinosa"},
    {"quote":"Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.","attribution":"Ira Glass"},
    {"quote":"Prejudices are what fools use for reason.","attribution":"Voltaire"},
    {"quote":"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.","attribution":"Kurt Vonnegut"},
    {"quote":"The best way to predict the future is to implement it.","attribution":"Alan Kay"},
    {"quote":"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.","attribution":"Clay Shirky"},
    {"quote":"In a world of locked doors, the man with the key is king.","attribution":"Jim Moriarty in The Reichenbach Fall, Sherlock, Season 2, Episode 3"},
    {"quote":"Don't be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots.","attribution":"US Airmail Pilot E. Hamilton Lee"},
    {"quote":"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.","attribution":"The Mentat Mantra, recited by Piter De Vries, Dune (1984)"},
    {"quote":"Wandering the hallway is some of the cheapest error correction out there.","attribution":"Michael Lopp (Rands In Repose)"},
    {"quote":"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.","attribution":"Ken Thompson (c.1984)"},
    {"quote":"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.","attribution":"Elbert Hubbard"},
    {"quote":"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools - with yesterday's concepts.","attribution":"Marshall McLuhan"},
    {"quote":"When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition to structure the experience.","attribution":"Marshall McLuhan"},
    {"quote":"Life is karaoke - a never-ending attempt to maintain dignity while a jumble of data uncontrollably blips across a screen.","attribution":"Doug Coupland"},
    {"quote":"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.","attribution":"Henry Miller"},
    {"quote":"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.","attribution":"Henry Miller"},
    {"quote":"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.","attribution":"George Orwell"},
    {"quote":"The more structure you put into content, the freer it will become.","attribution":"Karen McGrane"},
    {"quote":"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.","attribution":"Oscar Wilde"},
    {"quote":"The web allows us to express ourselves without judging, and in return it remembers everything we said without remorse.","attribution":"Eric A. Meyer"},
    {"quote":"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.","attribution":"Roald Dahl"},
    {"quote":"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.","attribution":"Eric Hoffer"},
    {"quote":"Men will always be making mistakes as long as they are striving after something.","attribution":"Max Planck"},
    {"quote":"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.","attribution":"Dr. Maya Angelou"},
    {"quote":"Law is just code written in a very free form, error prone, imprecise language. It's basically PHP really.","attribution":"Alex Gaynor"},
    {"quote":"Pain is temporary, suck is forever.","attribution":"Michael B Johnson, Pixar"},
    {"quote":"A surprise is chaos with intent.","attribution":"Michael Lopp (Rands In Repose)"},
    {"quote":"The most daring thing to do with your life is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.","attribution":"Kurt Vonnegut"},
    {"quote":"Failure means you're learning. At scale.","attribution":"Michael Lopp (Rands In Repose)"},
    {"quote":"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.","attribution":"Richard Bach"},
    {"quote":"If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.","attribution":"Jim Barksdale"},
    {"quote":"You can't just wish the future into being. It has to be paid for.","attribution":"Tony Stark as written by Warren Ellis, Iron Man Extremis"},
    {"quote":"Copy, extend, and finally, discovery of a new form. It takes a while to shelf old paradigms.","attribution":"Scott Jensen"},
    {"quote":"I love the man who can smile in trouble, gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.","attribution":"Thomas Paine"},
    {"quote":"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.","attribution":"Oscar Wilde"},
    {"quote":"If there isn't a little art in what you do, the kids will wander off to buy someone else's sneakers.","attribution":"Rich Gold"},
    {"quote":"If you want to test a man's character, give him power.","attribution":"Abraham Lincoln"},
    {"quote":"Intelligence is like an underwear. It is important that you have it, but not necessary that you show it off.","attribution":"Morgan Freeman"},
    {"quote":"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.","attribution":"Jeff Hammerbacher, fmr. Manager of Facebook Data Team"},
    {"quote":"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.","attribution":"Luc de Clapiers"},
    {"quote":"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.","attribution":"Thich Nhat Hanh"},
    {"quote":"Do you really have five years of experience or one year repeated five times?","attribution":"Kathy Sierra"},
    {"quote":"Every great idea starts as a movement, becomes a business and turns into a scam.","attribution":"Unknown"},
    {"quote":"Today's landscape is boot camp for tomorrow's insanity.","attribution":"Brad Frost"},
    {"quote":"Nobody has any idea of what a new invention will really be good for. The crucial question is, what happens when everyone has one?","attribution":"Kevin Kelly"},
    {"quote":"This is not a smart phone. This is a device to amplify curiosity.","attribution":"John Seely Brown"},
    {"quote":"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.","attribution":"Mark Weiser"},
    {"quote":"Statistics is the new grammar.","attribution":"Clive Thompson"},
    {"quote":"Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.","attribution":"Albert Einstein"},
    {"quote":"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.","attribution":"Albert Einstein"},
    {"quote":"What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.","attribution":"Joseph Weizenbaum, ELIZA designer"},
    {"quote":"In the absence of consistent communications, they're going to tell themselves a story that confirms their worst fear.","attribution":"Michael Lopp (Rands In Repose)"},
    {"quote":"We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.","attribution":"Picasso"},
    {"quote":"A crust eaten in peace is better than a feast eaten in fear.","attribution":"Aesop"},
    {"quote":"Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth and I'll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.","attribution":"Steve Sabol"},
    {"quote":"I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.","attribution":"Hermann Hesse"},
    {"quote":"You need to spend time with the individual units of content in order to truly understand and craft a system.","attribution":"Erin Kissane"},
    {"quote":"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.","attribution":"Clarence Darrow"},
    {"quote":"Never make an enemy by accident.","attribution":"Anna Bates, Downton Abbey (Episode 3.1)"},
    {"quote":"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.","attribution":"William Ralph Inge"},
    {"quote":"Give a man a program and frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program and you frustrate him for a lifetime.","attribution":"Hilary Mason"},
    {"quote":"I've made the biggest breakthroughs when I'm completely unqualified for the job.","attribution":"Paula Scher"},
    {"quote":"The big ideas in business are often very obvious, but it's very hard to maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.","attribution":"Jeff Bezos"},
    {"quote":"The world is in need of civilized mischief. Art is at the forefront of that need.","attribution":"Harry Belafonte"},
    {"quote":"Creativity is as much about doing as having a blinding flash of inspiration.","attribution":"Nolan K Bushnell"},
    {"quote":"Untidy desks are creativity's compost heaps.","attribution":"William Gibson"},
    {"quote":"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.","attribution":"Carl Jung"},
    {"quote":"It is probably a virus' is the doctor equivalent of 'works on my machine'.","attribution":"Nicholas C. Zakas"},
    {"quote":"I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.","attribution":"Daniel J. Boorstin"},
    {"quote":"The best way to be future friendly is to be backward compatible.","attribution":"Jeremy Keith"},
    {"quote":"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.","attribution":"Gustave Flaubert"},
    {"quote":"Information communicated as facts loses all its contexts and relationships, while information communicated as art or as experience maintains and nourishes its connections.","attribution":"Tom Bender"},
    {"quote":"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.","attribution":"Soren Kierkegaard"},
    {"quote":"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.","attribution":"Neale Donald"},
    {"quote":"Every we makes a them.","attribution":"Dave Cormier"},
    {"quote":"Good leaders weaponize common sense.","attribution":"Michael Lopp (Rands In Repose)"},
    {"quote":"If I'm building a team, I'll take generalists who are addicted to learning over specialists who are addicted to thinking that they already know.","attribution":"Kyle Wild"},
    {"quote":"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.","attribution":"Niels Bohr"},
    {"quote":"We accepted the products of science but rejected its methods.","attribution":"Carl Sagan"},
    {"quote":"Celebrity should not be the worship of one by many from afar.","attribution":"Amanda Palmer"},
    {"quote":"Writing and rewriting are the constant search for what one is saying.","attribution":"John Updike"},
    {"quote":"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, pitching for funding.","attribution":"John Allsopp"},
    {"quote":"If you control the code, you control the world.","attribution":"Marc Goodman"},
    {"quote":"Those who cannot perceive the network cannot act effectively within it, and are powerless. The job, then is to make such things visible.","attribution":"James Bridle"},
    {"quote":"In God we trust, all others bring data.","attribution":"W. Edwards Deming"},
    {"quote":"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.","attribution":"Douglas Adams"},
    {"quote":"The folloies of youth become the vice of adulthood and the disgrace of old age.","attribution":"Anonymous"},
    {"quote":"I see god in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.","attribution":"Buckminster Fuller"},
    {"quote":"I view a manual as a software designer's list of failures.","attribution":"Paul Heckel"},
    {"quote":"The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.","attribution":"Edward Tufte"},
    {"quote":"Ninety percent of everything is crap.","attribution":"Sturgeon's Law"},
    {"quote":"The start is what stops most people.","attribution":"Don Shula"},
    {"quote":"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.","attribution":"Carl Sagan"},
    {"quote":"The city's central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!","attribution":"C3PO"},
    {"quote":"A prototype is an empathy machine. Its output is insight.","attribution":"Jennifer Brook"},
    {"quote":"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.","attribution":"Thomas A. Edison"},
    {"quote":"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.","attribution":"Jim Rohn"},
    {"quote":"Well-designed components are easy to replace. Eventually, they will be replaced by ones that are not so easy to replace.","attribution":"Sustrik's Law"},
    {"quote":"Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.","attribution":"Thomas Edison"},
    {"quote":"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.","attribution":"George Bernard Shaw"},
    {"quote":"Q: How many software developers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None it's a hardware problem.","attribution":"Ed Leafe"},
    {"quote":"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.","attribution":"R. Collier"},
    {"quote":"The secret to getting ahead is getting started.","attribution":"Mark Twain"},
    {"quote":"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.","attribution":"Bertrand Russell"},
    {"quote":"The life which is unexamined is not worth living.","attribution":"Socrates"},
    {"quote":"All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.","attribution":"Mark Twain"},
    {"quote":"Disappointment is the price of wanting a better world.","attribution":"Danny O'Brien"},
    {"quote":"F* every cause that ends in murder and children crying.","attribution":"Iain Banks"},
    {"quote":"In an attention economy advertising is theft.","attribution":"Nadav Savio"},
    {"quote":"To all saying 'they're just words': words are literally what separates us and animals. To downplay their importance is avocado penguins.","attribution":"Kumail Nanjiani"},
    {"quote":"I'm Bored, Let's Pivot","attribution":"Anonymous"},
    {"quote":"A vision without execution is a hallucination.","attribution":"Thomas Edison"},
    {"quote":"The fastest algorithm can frequently be replaced by one that is almost as fast and much easier to understand.","attribution":"Douglas W. Jones"},
    {"quote":"The best way to predict your future is to create it.","attribution":"Abraham Lincoln"},
    {"quote":"Burnout is not caused by working hard. Burnout is caused by not shipping.","attribution":"Mike Lee"},
    {"quote":"The best time to plant an oak tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.","attribution":"Chinese Proverb"},
    {"quote":"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.","attribution":"Jim Rohn"},
    {"quote":"I'm a man of many epithets. There's my stage name, my pen name, my avatar. Had a pseudonym once, but had to leave Ushane.","attribution":"Rango as written by John Logan, Rango"},
    {"quote":"Trying times are not the times to stop trying.","attribution":"Ray Owen"},
    {"quote":"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.","attribution":"Edsger W. Dijkstra"},
    {"quote":"The quality of a system depends on how the parts fit, NOT how they act, taken separately.","attribution":"Russel L. Ackoff"},
    {"quote":"It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.","attribution":"James Thurber"},
    {"quote":"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.","attribution":"Theodore Roosevelt"},
    {"quote":"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.","attribution":"Frank Zappa"},
    {"quote":"It's amazing how many people either don't get or accept that programming isn't communicating with computers, it's communicating through them","attribution":"Sam Aaron"},
    {"quote":"Open ecosystems accelerate learning, agility, and innovation but we don't make many.","attribution":"David Frigstad"},
    {"quote":"Do not wait until all the conditions are perfect for you to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.","attribution":"Alan Cohen"},
    {"quote":"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.","attribution":"Frmr UK Prime Min. David Lloyd George"},
    {"quote":"Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.","attribution":"Alain de Botton"},
    {"quote":"It takes courage to grow up and be who you really are.","attribution":"e.e. cummings"},
    {"quote":"No better sign of progress than when future feels mundane: it grants you the license to invent a new one.","attribution":"M. Buchanan"},
    {"quote":"Code is easier to change than opinions.","attribution":"Colin Brumelle"},
    {"quote":"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.","attribution":"James A. Baldwin"},
    {"quote":"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book.","attribution":"Cicero, 106-43 BCE"},
    {"quote":"He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.","attribution":"Tom J. Connelly"},
    {"quote":"Writing code means always having to say you're sorry.","attribution":"Paul Ford"},
    {"quote":"No amount of evidence will ever convince an idiot.","attribution":"Mark Twain"},
    {"quote":"For some people, it seems hard to even entertain the idea that a deliberately designed constraint is an enabler, not a limitation.","attribution":"Oliver Drotbohm"},
    {"quote":"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.","attribution":"Turkish proverb"},
    {"quote":"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.","attribution":"Terry Pratchett"},
    {"quote":"More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.","attribution":"Peter Norvig"},
    {"quote":"If your sphere of concern is much bigger than your sphere of influence, you're gonna feel totally overwhelmed.","attribution":"Sarah Firth"},
    {"quote":"The illiterate of 21st century will not be those that cannot read & write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.","attribution":"Alvin Toffler"},
    {"quote":"Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.","attribution":"David McCullough"},
    {"quote":"It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.","attribution":"Richard Hamming"},
    {"quote":"When you know better you do better.","attribution":"Maya Angelou"},
    {"quote":"You can read the history of an enterprise's political struggles in its system architecture.","attribution":"Michael Nygard"},
    {"quote":"Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.","attribution":"Edsger W. Dijkstra"},
    {"quote":"Simple design, intense content.","attribution":"Edward Tufte"},
    {"quote":"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.","attribution":"Roger Lewin"},
    {"quote":"Want to be a web developer? Easy! First, imagine you're a carpenter. Second, imagine that the house you're building is made of live monkeys.","attribution":"David Yee"},
    {"quote":"Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore, write.","attribution":"James A. Baldwin"},
    {"quote":"Software engineering isn't a technology business: it's a people business. You're building tools that solve real problems for real people, and you're doing it inside an organizational structure that is also made of people.","attribution":"Ben Werdmuller"},
    {"quote":"How you start your day is how you live your day. How you live your day is how you live your life.","attribution":"Louise Hay"},
    {"quote":"Infrastructure is quietly heroic, and deserves to be seen that way.","attribution":"Matt Blaze"},
    {"quote":"Toys and games are preludes to serious ideas.","attribution":"Charles Eames"},
    {"quote":"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man with wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.","attribution":"Joseph Roux"},
    {"quote":"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.","attribution":"Margaret Mead"},
    {"quote":"Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.","attribution":"Mark Twain"},
    {"quote":"We always favor the urgent over the important.","attribution":"Benny Tomas"},
    {"quote":"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.","attribution":"Albert Einstein"},
    {"quote":"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.","attribution":"Harold Abelson, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"},
    {"quote":"Fairy tales are more than true - not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.","attribution":"G. K. Chesterton"},
    {"quote":"Repetition is the death of magic.","attribution":"Bill Watterson"},
    {"quote":"I want to create things that inspire people to create more things.","attribution":"François Chollet"},
    {"quote":"Most of what we do in software is change it. And when you consider changing the software, then you've got the whole sociotechnical system of the team, the product org, your entire company. When changing software, it becomes a social project to get a change into the system.","attribution":"Jessica Kerr"},
    {"quote":"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in a human situation.","attribution":"Graham Greene"},
    {"quote":"People aren't going hungry because we cannot feed the poor. People are going hungry because we cannot satisfy the rich.","attribution":"Mohamad Safa"},
    {"quote":"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.","attribution":"African Proverb"},
    {"quote":"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.","attribution":"G. K. Chesterton"},
    {"quote":"Your life is going to be full of people sounding like they know what they're talking about.","attribution":"Michael Lopp (Rands In Repose)"},
    {"quote":"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.","attribution":"Socrates"},
    {"quote":"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.","attribution":"Thomas Edison"},
    {"quote":"I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.","attribution":"Benjamin Franklin"},
    {"quote":"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes but, when we look back everything is different.","attribution":"C.S. Lewis"},
    {"quote":"Money is circulated. Time is spent.","attribution":"Frank Chimero"},
    {"quote":"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.","attribution":"Phil Karlton"},
    {"quote":"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1-errors.","attribution":"Leon Bambrick"},
    {"quote":"The two hardest problems in computer science are rampant misogyny, racism, ablism, and a tendency to oversimplify the glorious diversity of the world into binaries.","attribution":"Luci Scissors"},
    {"quote":"A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.","attribution":"Arthur Golden"},
    {"quote":"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.","attribution":"Jim Rohn"},
    {"quote":"Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.","attribution":"Spanish Proverb"},
    {"quote":"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.","attribution":"Dale Carnegie"},
    {"quote":"You can't solve exponential problems with linear solutions.","attribution":"Banny Banerjee"},
    {"quote":"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.","attribution":"Antoine de Saint-Exupery"},
    {"quote":"There are no finished books, only exhausted authors.","attribution":"Bob Sutton"},
    {"quote":"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.","attribution":"Aldous Huxley"},
    {"quote":"Journalism is printing what somebody else doesn't want printed - everything else is public relations.","attribution":"George Orwell"},
    {"quote":"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.","attribution":"Andrew Jackson"},
    {"quote":"No matter what the problem is, it's always a people problem.","attribution":"Gerald Weinberg"},
    {"quote":"The court of public opinion is full of jesters.","attribution":"Max Quattromani"},
    {"quote":"A programmer that knows one language will think it's perfect and defend it fanatically. One who knows more than one language hates them all.","attribution":"James Cash"},
    {"quote":"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.","attribution":"Thomas J. Watson"},
    {"quote":"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.","attribution":"Linus Pauling"},
    {"quote":"It seems there's an unlimited supply of outrage but a limited supply of action.","attribution":"Scott Hanselman"},
    {"quote":"Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.","attribution":"Chinese Proverb"},
    {"quote":"You're only limited by your own imagination! And money. And talent. And genetics. And time. And other people. Go for it!","attribution":"Georg Grey"},
    {"quote":"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.","attribution":"Julian Barnes"},
    {"quote":"The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful.","attribution":"Alfred Sloan"},
    {"quote":"It's important to remember that resilience and grit can be more significant than brilliance.","attribution":"John Gobron"},
    {"quote":"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.","attribution":"Mark Twain"},
    {"quote":"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.","attribution":"Vincent Van Gogh"},
    {"quote":"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.","attribution":"Lao Tzu"},
    {"quote":"Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.","attribution":"Anthony Bourdain"},
    {"quote":"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.","attribution":"Maria Robinson"},
    {"quote":"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.","attribution":"Stephen McCranie"},
    {"quote":"There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know.","attribution":"Roger H. Lincoln"},
    {"quote":"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when we grow up.","attribution":"Pablo Picasso"},
    {"quote":"Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.","attribution":"William Faulkner"},
    {"quote":"Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!","attribution":"Orville Wright"},
    {"quote":"Nothing can be understood without also understanding the environment.","attribution":"Russell L. Ackoff"},
    {"quote":"But they [computers] are useless. They can only give you answers!","attribution":"Pablo Picasso"},
    {"quote":"A teacher's responsibility is not to convey facts but to create enthusiasm for asking questions.","attribution":"Max Tegmark"},
    {"quote":"Don't write code that guesses the future, arrange code so you can adapt to the future when it arrives.","attribution":"Sandi Metz"},
    {"quote":"If you're an introspective, thoughtful person, interviews expecting you to have brilliant answers in real-time are the absolute worst.","attribution":"Matt Haughey"},
    {"quote":"Easy reading is damn hard writing.","attribution":"Nathaniel Hawthorne"},
    {"quote":"Confidence doesn't come from knowing you're right - it comes from being okay with failing.","attribution":"Mike Monteiro"},
    {"quote":"We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.","attribution":"J Robert Oppenheimer"},
    {"quote":"I was one of the few people in the world who believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.","attribution":"H. L. Mencken"},
    {"quote":"Developers need autonomy, mastery, and purpose, not pizzas, hugs, and ping-pong tables.","attribution":"Eduards Sizovs"},
    {"quote":"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.","attribution":"George Orwell"},
    {"quote":"You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.","attribution":"Andy Warhol"},
    {"quote":"So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.","attribution":"Attributed to Winston Churchill"},
    {"quote":"Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.","attribution":"D.W. Winnicott"},
    {"quote":"Culture eventually becomes the single biggest resistance to innovation.","attribution":"Scott Berkun"},
    {"quote":"Unlike the moral universe, the long arc of technology curves not towards justice, but boredom.","attribution":"Tom Coates"},
    {"quote":"Myth: you will create resolved work on the 1st try. Reality: I toss out 90% of what I make. To edit is to create.","attribution":"Elle Luna"},
    {"quote":"Just because you can't see the larger system, doesn't mean there isn't one.","attribution":"Brenda M. Michelson"},
    {"quote":"Never was anything great achieved without danger.","attribution":"Machiavelli"},
    {"quote":"Getting up in the morning and DOING stuff puts you ahead of 99% of your competition.","attribution":"Scott Hanselman"},
    {"quote":"How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.","attribution":"G. K. Chesterton"},
    {"quote":"Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing.","attribution":"Halt and Catch Fire, S04E09"},
    {"quote":"The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.","attribution":"Theo Jansen"},
    {"quote":"The sign of a developed country is not that the poor have basic services but that the rich use them too. Water, phones, power, transit.","attribution":"Benedict Evans"},
    {"quote":"Much of computing has been woven on the loom of sorrow, and the tapestry will continue to unfold.","attribution":"Grady Booch"},
    {"quote":"After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.","attribution":"Chinese Proverb"},
    {"quote":"I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression.","attribution":"Brian Sutton-Smith"},
    {"quote":"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.","attribution":"Buddist Proverb"},
    {"quote":"The first line you lay down in a drawing doesn't necessarily need to be there when it's finished.","attribution":"James Jirat Patradoon"},
    {"quote":"The best self-improvement tool ever created was the mirror.","attribution":"John Miller"},
    {"quote":"If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.","attribution":"Thomas J. Watson"},
    {"quote":"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.","attribution":"Linus Torvalds"},
    {"quote":"If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings, nor lose the common touch.","attribution":"Rudyard Kipling"},
    {"quote":"The value of a well-designed object is that the people who use it can do things with it that the designer never imagined.","attribution":"Donald Norman"},
    {"quote":"The very thing that makes you invisble to computers makes you glaringly obvious to other humans.","attribution":"Robinson Meyer"},
    {"quote":"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.","attribution":"John F. Kennedy"},
    {"quote":"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.","attribution":"Emerson Pugh"},
    {"quote":"Religion and art are saying the same things - stop, pay attention, be aware of the depth of time, see people, see others, be human.","attribution":"Buechner"},
    {"quote":"Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.","attribution":"John Maynard Keynes"},
    {"quote":"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.","attribution":"Tom Clancy"},
    {"quote":"The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.","attribution":"Amanda Cross"},
    {"quote":"When forced to work within a strict framework the imagination is taxed to its utmost - and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom the work is likely to sprawl.","attribution":"T.S. Eliot"},
    {"quote":"Don't aim to be civilized. Don't hope that straight people will keep you on as some kind of pet. To hell with them; they put you here. You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge.","attribution":"Bruce Sterling"},
    {"quote":"Information is only secondary. It is the human contact that keeps the Net-addicted coming back.","attribution":"Raph Koster"},
    {"quote":"Stop thinking about artwork as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.","attribution":"Brian Eno"},
    {"quote":"Wealth consists of not having great possessions, but in having few wants.","attribution":"Epictetus"},
    {"quote":"Feedback thrives in orgs where the goal is not getting comfortable with hard conversations, but normalizing the discomfort.","attribution":"Brene Brown"},
    {"quote":"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impormptu speech.","attribution":"Mark Twain"},
    {"quote":"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.","attribution":"Pablo Picasso"},
    {"quote":"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.","attribution":"John Steinbeck"},
    {"quote":"One thing I wish I knew when I started writing software a few decades back: It's not who is smarter, it's who can communicate better.","attribution":"Bryan Liles"},
    {"quote":"Luck is the residue of design.","attribution":"John Milton"},
    {"quote":"If you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything you like.","attribution":"R.H. Coase"},
    {"quote":"The universe is made of stories, not atoms.","attribution":"Muriel Rukeyser"},
    {"quote":"There is no way to amplify marginalized voices if structural inequality is reflected in our algorithms.","attribution":"Joanne McNeil"},
    {"quote":"Entertain that we are living in an intellectual and spiritual dark age but there is too much technology to notice.","attribution":"Jessica Brookman"},
    {"quote":"Interface evolves towards transparency.","attribution":"William Gibson"},
    {"quote":"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.","attribution":"Frank Lloyd Wright"},
    {"quote":"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.","attribution":"Charles Darwin"},
    {"quote":"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.","attribution":"Mark Twain"},
    {"quote":"Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.","attribution":"David Bowie"},
    {"quote":"Judge a man by his questions, not his answers.","attribution":"Voltaire"},
    {"quote":"Pessimists desire the things they fear, to prove that they are right.","attribution":"Robert Mallet"},
    {"quote":"No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go","attribution":"Henry Rollins"},
    {"quote":"Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"If design is merely an inducement to consume, then we must reject design.","attribution":"Adolfo Natalini"},
    {"quote":"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.","attribution":"CS Lewis"},
    {"quote":"People blame their problems on the people they don't like.","attribution":"Michael Lopp"},
    {"quote":"Good specifications will always improve programmer productivity far better than any programming tool or technique.","attribution":"Milt Bryce"},
    {"quote":"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.","attribution":"Grace Hopper"},
    {"quote":"We explore or we expire.","attribution":"Buzz Aldrin"},
    {"quote":"Came down from my ivory tower and found no world.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"If it's inaccessible to the poor, it's neither radical nor revolutionary.","attribution":"Unknown"},
    {"quote":"We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"... write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.","attribution":"George Orwell"},
    {"quote":"The poet is the person who uses words not primarily to convey information but to make a relationship, shape beauty, form truth.","attribution":"Eugene Peterson"},
    {"quote":"The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.","attribution":"Edward Tufte"},
    {"quote":"Sleepwalking into surveillance capitalism, which is evolving into data and computation driven authoritarianism, one cool service at a time.","attribution":"Zeynep Tufekci"},
    {"quote":"Effective is not equal to productive. Effective teams can solve gnarly business problems with *little or no* code.","attribution":"Dan North"},
    {"quote":"We have not come as far as we think we have. We pat ourselves on the back for small changes, but these aren't structural changes.","attribution":"Yaa Gyasi"},
    {"quote":"You can't build a great organization unless you have an opinion on how an organization should operate.","attribution":"Kate Heddleston"},
    {"quote":"Technology. Everyone's so afraid of missing what's next they never bother to fix/optimize what's here now.","attribution":"Luke Wroblewski"},
    {"quote":"All software will fail, but good software fails well.","attribution":"Theo Schlossnagle"},
    {"quote":"It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.","attribution":"Dr. Seuss, The Lorax, 1971"},
    {"quote":"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.","attribution":"Franz Kafka"},
    {"quote":"We need systems that do not require personal heroics for people to do the right thing.","attribution":"Josh Kodroff"},
    {"quote":"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.","attribution":"Franklin D. Roosevelt"},
    {"quote":"A plausible narrative has immense power. Much more than mere evidence or data.","attribution":"Bob Marshall"},
    {"quote":"I think I did pretty well, considering I started with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.","attribution":"Steve Martin"},
    {"quote":"The fundamental fight is not between left and right but between proudly-ignorant, reckless and incompetent indecency and those who oppose it.","attribution":"Benjamin Wittes"},
    {"quote":"Many computer programmers are prima donnas who are temperamentally more akin to artists than to technicians.","attribution":"Thomas H. Crowley, 1967"},
    {"quote":"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)","attribution":"Walt Whitman"},
    {"quote":"On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles with the right music on the radio.","attribution":"Hunter S. Thompson"},
    {"quote":"Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.","attribution":"Ralph Keyes"},
    {"quote":"Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love.","attribution":"Pete Cordell"},
    {"quote":"We are building skyscraper favelas in code - in earthquake zones.","attribution":"Zeynep Tufekci"},
    {"quote":"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.","attribution":"Pliny the Younger"},
    {"quote":"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.","attribution":"John Gall"},
    {"quote":"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.","attribution":"Enrique Penalosa"},
    {"quote":"Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.","attribution":"TS Eliot"},
    {"quote":"Good writers rewrite. Good programmers refactor. Good designers revise. The first idea is seldom the best. The first iteration is seldom the best.","attribution":"Stephen Hay"},
    {"quote":"I think it's terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people's expectations. They generally produce their worst work when they do that.","attribution":"David Bowie"},
    {"quote":"Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"I believe deep thinking can only be done in writing. To follow an idea seriously, you must constantly pause to consider all possibilities, which takes time and care.","attribution":"François Chollet"},
    {"quote":"If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is light as a feather and a breath will carry it.","attribution":"Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon"},
    {"quote":"All models are wrong, but some are useful.","attribution":"George Box"},
    {"quote":"All models are wrong, so why not start with one you actually understand?","attribution":"Jenny Bryan"},
    {"quote":"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.","attribution":"Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel"},
    {"quote":"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.","attribution":"Charles Bukowski"},
    {"quote":"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.","attribution":"Orson Welles"},
    {"quote":"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful who we pretend to be.","attribution":"Kurt Vonnegut"},
    {"quote":"Arrangements of technical architecture are arrangements of power.","attribution":"Dr. Laura DeNardis"},
    {"quote":"Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me.","attribution":"The Baal Shem Tov"},
    {"quote":"There can be no expertise in innovation unless there is also expertise in demolishing the ensconced.","attribution":"Kevin Kelly"},
    {"quote":"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.","attribution":"Robert Anton"},
    {"quote":"Although data can make a compelling case for something, data rarely create the emotions needed to spur people into action.","attribution":"John Maeda"},
    {"quote":"To harmonize the whole is the task of art.","attribution":"Wassily Kandinsky"},
    {"quote":"Everyone likes to write reusable code, no-one likes to reuse someone else's code.","attribution":"Eryn O'Neil"},
    {"quote":"I would say that shared understanding is what enables the network of different beliefs to exist. If we aim only for agreement, the network collapses into a single belief.","attribution":"Marcus Rådell"},
    {"quote":"I want to work in revelations, not spin silly tales for money.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"As long as I remain unafraid to admit that I don't know, as that is the first step to finding out.","attribution":"Rachel Andrew"},
    {"quote":"Computers are just as oppressive as before, but smaller and cheaper and more widespread. Now you can be oppressed by computers in your living room.","attribution":"Ted Nelson"},
    {"quote":"Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.","attribution":"Terry Pratchett"},
    {"quote":"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.","attribution":"Elie Wiesel"},
    {"quote":"What is it about becoming a professional that takes the poetry out of us?","attribution":"John Paul Lederach"},
    {"quote":"It's hard to keep apocalypse consistently in mind, especially if you want to get out of bed in the morning.","attribution":"Zadie Smith"},
    {"quote":"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.","attribution":"Harlan Ellison"},
    {"quote":"If your solution to some problem relies on 'If everyone would just...' then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At no time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they're not going to start now.","attribution":"squareallworthy.tumblr.com"},
    {"quote":"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.","attribution":"Stephen Jay Gould"},
    {"quote":"The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas thrive.","attribution":"Simon Sinek"},
    {"quote":"There can be no expertise in innovation unless there is also expertise in demolishing the ensconced.","attribution":"Kevin Kelly"},
    {"quote":"If you're designing architecture without understanding needs, you're not designing. You're doing art.","attribution":"Wisen Tanasa"},
    {"quote":"[The] Computer field is accustomed to falsely imposing hierarchy, orderliness, and regularity on what is not ordered and regular... and I say we must stop doing that.","attribution":"Ted Nelson"},
    {"quote":"Merit rating rewards people that do well in the system. It does not reward attempts to improve the system.","attribution":"Deming"},
    {"quote":"The greatest danger in times of complexity is not the complexity - it is to act with yesterday's mental models.","attribution":"Hermanni Hyytiälä"},
    {"quote":"The job of a static application language is not to eliminate algorithms, but to hide them.","attribution":"Melvin Conway"},
    {"quote":"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.","attribution":"Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed"},
    {"quote":"You can't understand a codebase without knowing the aspirations of the company at the time.","attribution":"Rachel Davies"},
    {"quote":"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.","attribution":"Mark Twain"},
    {"quote":"So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.","attribution":"Ryan Singer"},
    {"quote":"When a service 'predicts' what 'you' want, it is actually reshaping you into what makes it profitable.","attribution":"Rob Horning"},
    {"quote":"When writing code, you're always collaborating with future-you; and past-you doesn't respond to emails.","attribution":"Hadley Wickham"},
    {"quote":"Software is a liquid. It fills whatever hardware container into which it is poured.","attribution":"Grady Booch"},
    {"quote":"You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.","attribution":"Frank Lloyd Wright"},
    {"quote":"Every day, computers are making people easier to use.","attribution":"David Temkin"},
    {"quote":"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.","attribution":"Anne Bradstreet"},
    {"quote":"Amateurs have a goal. Professionals have a process.","attribution":"Shane Parrish"},
    {"quote":"People are fairly good at short-term design, and usually awful at long-term design.","attribution":"Dr. Roy Fielding"},
    {"quote":"There is nothing more permanent than a temporary hack.","attribution":"Kyle Simpson"},
    {"quote":"Their atrocities do not justify your atrocities. Ever","attribution":"Andrew Stroehlein"},
    {"quote":"We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.","attribution":"Ellen Ullman"},
    {"quote":"There is nothing more unproductive than to build something efficiently that should not have been built at all.","attribution":"Milt Bryce"},
    {"quote":"In many work-related conflicts, both sides are right given the context they have. The job of leaders is to use the fact they see the big picture to break logjams by showing people how their puzzle piece fits in.","attribution":"Dare Obasanjo"},
    {"quote":"The hardest part of being a developer isn't the code, it's learning that the entire internet is put together with peanut butter and goblins.","attribution":"Sarah Drasner"},
    {"quote":"Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.","attribution":"Ada Lovelace"},
    {"quote":"The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.","attribution":"Bram Cohen"},
    {"quote":"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.","attribution":"Grace Hopper"},
    {"quote":"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.","attribution":"Steve Wozniak"},
    {"quote":"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.","attribution":"Peter F. Drucker"},
    {"quote":"Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.","attribution":"Unknown"},
    {"quote":"Crunch is not a triumph of the workforce. It is a failure of the management.","attribution":"Jim Sterling"},
    {"quote":"A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.","attribution":"Niklaus Wirth"},
    {"quote":"The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.","attribution":"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."},
    {"quote":"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.","attribution":"J.R.R. Tolkien"},
    {"quote":"That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.","attribution":"John Stuart Mill"},
    {"quote":"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.","attribution":"Dorothy Parker"},
    {"quote":"When you can do a common thing in an uncommon way; you will command the attention of the world.","attribution":"George Washington Carver"},
    {"quote":"The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.","attribution":"Gordon Bell"},
    {"quote":"Process that is heavy is process that is eventually abandoned ... provided it doesn't kill you first.","attribution":"Sisyphus, 530bc"},
    {"quote":"The ambiguous meaning of human experience is somewhat at odds with the capacities of computers; machines transform things into numbers, whereas humans transform numbers into meaning.","attribution":"Ian Bogost"},
    {"quote":"Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.","attribution":"Andy Stanley"},
    {"quote":"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.","attribution":"Henry David Thoreau"},
    {"quote":"If any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, then any bug resulting from that technology is indistinguishable from a curse.","attribution":"Dieter Bohn"},
    {"quote":"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking.","attribution":"George S. Patton"},
    {"quote":"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.","attribution":"Toni Morrison"},
    {"quote":"If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you","attribution":"Buddist Proverb"},
    {"quote":"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?","attribution":"Doctor Who, s05e13, The Big Bang"},
    {"quote":"What we call a disaster is tied up in what we find dramatic.","attribution":"Charlie Loyd"},
    {"quote":"If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.","attribution":"Philip K. Dick"},
    {"quote":"There's a big difference between making a simple product and making a product simple.","attribution":"Des Traynor"},
    {"quote":"Anyone who says distributed systems are easy does not have sufficient experience with distributed systems.","attribution":"Martin Thompson"},
    {"quote":"I don't care that they stole my idea - I care that they don't have any of their own.","attribution":"Nikola Tesla"},
    {"quote":"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once the hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.","attribution":"James A. Baldwin"},
    {"quote":"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.","attribution":"Fran Lebowitz"},
    {"quote":"Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms.","attribution":"Jorge Luis Borges"},
    {"quote":"Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.","attribution":"Edsger W. Dijkstra"},
    {"quote":"If you get, give. If you learn, teach.","attribution":"Maya Angelou"},
    {"quote":"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.","attribution":"Alfred North Whitehead"},
    {"quote":"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.","attribution":"Greek Proverb"},
    {"quote":"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.","attribution":"Audre Lorde"},
    {"quote":"The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.","attribution":"Theo Jansen"},
    {"quote":"You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.","attribution":"Robin Williams"},
    {"quote":"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.","attribution":"Ralph Waldo Emerson"},
    {"quote":"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.","attribution":"Carl Jung"},
    {"quote":"In the future, everyone will want to be anonymous for fifteen minutes.","attribution":"Anonymous"},
    {"quote":"Progress feels good. But progress feels even better when you put it to the test and learn something.","attribution":"John Cutler"},
    {"quote":"Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.","attribution":"Chili Davis"},
    {"quote":"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.","attribution":"CS Lewis"},
    {"quote":"We don't need more humanities majors in tech, we need fewer sociopaths elevated to leadership.","attribution":"Kellen Elliot-McCrea"},
    {"quote":"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.","attribution":"Ursula Le Guin"},
    {"quote":"We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective.","attribution":"Kurt Vonnegut"},
    {"quote":"Systems of classification are themselves systems of power.","attribution":"Stuart Hall"},
    {"quote":"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.","attribution":"Nathaniel Hawthorne"},
    {"quote":"[On writing] I am currently avoiding a novel, and avoiding it very well.","attribution":"Samit Basu"},
    {"quote":"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.","attribution":"E.L. Doctorow"},
    {"quote":"There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading in the same direction, so it doesn't matter which path you take. The only one wasting time is the one who runs around and around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.","attribution":"Hindu Proverb"},
    {"quote":"Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.","attribution":"Andy Stanley"},
    {"quote":"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.","attribution":"Harold Abelson"},
    {"quote":"While 'losing control' is one of the biggest fears in management, 'having control' is one of the biggest illusions.","attribution":"Bjarte Bogsnes"},
    {"quote":"Each epoch dreams the one to follow.","attribution":"Jules Michelet"},
    {"quote":"To be alive means to live in a world that preceded one's own arrival and will survive one's own departure.","attribution":"Hannah Arendt"},
    {"quote":"'If it weren't for the people, the god-damn people' said Finnerty, 'always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren't for them, the world would be an engineer's paradise.'","attribution":"Kurt Vonnegut (Player Piano,1952)"},
    {"quote":"Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you.'","attribution":"John Carmack"},
    {"quote":"Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.'","attribution":"Rod Serling"},
    {"quote":"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.","attribution":"Fred Brooks"},
    {"quote":"Architecture represents the significant decisions, where significance is measured by the cost of change.","attribution":"Grady Booch"},
    {"quote":"Leadership is a group phenomenon; it arises out of interactions.","attribution":"Eb Ikonne"},
    {"quote":"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.","attribution":"William Blake"},
    {"quote":"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.","attribution":"Gore Vidal"},
    {"quote":"Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.","attribution":"Wallace Stevens"},
    {"quote":"There's no such thing as a permanent state of turmoil. Eventually, turmoil becomes normal.","attribution":"Cory Doctorow"},
    {"quote":"The new beautiful freaks will teach us all how to play again (and they'll suffer society's penalty).","attribution":"Richard Neville"},
    {"quote":"Life's too short to play the game.  If you can't exist outside of the system, then you can't make your own choices, you can't follow your own muse.","attribution":"Bob Lefsetz"},
    {"quote":"Being well-enough known to be pirated [is] a crowning achievement.","attribution":"Tim O'Reilly"},
    {"quote":"Rembmer that people break down, too, not just machinery.","attribution":"Gregory Benford"},
    {"quote":"Software is done the way that the dishes are done. You can only consider it finished if you never plan on using it again.","attribution":"Dave Cheney"},
    {"quote":"When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck. Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.","attribution":"Paul Virilio"},
    {"quote":"I'm becoming convinced that we know far less than we think and we think much less than we know.","attribution":"Walter Kirn"},
    {"quote":"The sign of vitality is not durability. Rather, it is being reborn and adapting.","attribution":"José María Arizmendiarrieta"},
    {"quote":"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.","attribution":"Buckminster Fuller"},
    {"quote":"Unrealistic beliefs on scope - often hidden and undiscussed - kill high standards. To achieve high standards yourself or as part of a team, you need to form and proactively communicate realistic beliefs about how hard something is going to be.","attribution":"Jeff Bezos"},
    {"quote":"Merit rating rewards people that do well in the system. It does not reward attempts to improve the system.","attribution":"W. Edwards Deming"},
    {"quote":"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.","attribution":"Sartre"},
    {"quote":"We aren't trying to ship software as fast as possible, we are trying to add value as fast as possible.","attribution":"Donovan Brown"},
    {"quote":"Lord, grant me the skill to recognize and critique bad design, the humility to not criticize opinionated design that differs from my opinions, and the wisdom to know the difference.","attribution":"Larry Garfield"},
    {"quote":"The key to writing less code and causing less rework is to write better abstractions. Get better at identifying and avoiding repetative code.","attribution":"Eric Elliott"},
    {"quote":"Being a professional is the willingness to put oneself in the position of a novice, over and over, so we can continue to learn, improve, and apply.","attribution":"Venkat Subramaniam"},
    {"quote":"What really matters is helping others win, too, even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.","attribution":"Fred Rogers"},
    {"quote":"Don't delegate tasks, delegate ownership.","attribution":"Casey Watts"},
    {"quote":"Building the wrong thing is the biggest waste in software development.","attribution":"Mary Poppendieck"},
    {"quote":"Reliable systems don't have to be perfect - they have to have sensible tradeoffs.","attribution":"Mary Poppendieck"},
    {"quote":"Code is not self-documenting. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying as they mint technical debt.","attribution":"Jessy Irwin"},
    {"quote":"When one teaches, two learn.","attribution":"Robert Heinlein"},
    {"quote":"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.","attribution":"Alice Walker"},
    {"quote":"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.","attribution":"Lana Nana"},
    {"quote":"Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one.","attribution":"Voltaire"},
    {"quote":"Quality is doing it right when no one is watching.","attribution":"Henry Ford"},
    {"quote":"Knowledge is work; ignorance is free.","attribution":"Michael Lopp"},
    {"quote":"World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.","attribution":"Marshall McLuhan"},
    {"quote":"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.","attribution":"Benjamin Franklin"},
    {"quote":"I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game - it is the game.","attribution":"Louis V. Gerstner Jr."},
    {"quote":"If you watch trillions of things, you will often see one-in-a-million coincidences.","attribution":"Vernor Vinge"},
    {"quote":"No system can survive that doesn't serve a useful purpose.","attribution":"Harry Hillaker"},
    {"quote":"The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community (even if their intentions are ever so earnest), but the person who loves those around them will create community.","attribution":"D. Bonhoeffer"},
    {"quote":"People with targets and jobs dependent on meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.","attribution":"W. Edwards Deming"},
    {"quote":"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.","attribution":"Lewis Carroll"},
    {"quote":"The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.","attribution":"Konrad Zuse"},
    {"quote":"The danger was not machines becoming more like humans but humans being treated like machines.","attribution":"Freeman Dyson"},
    {"quote":"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.","attribution":"Ken Olsen (1977)"},
    {"quote":"From cells to cities, from satellites to web sites, at a certain level of abstraction every system manifests a message passing architecture.","attribution":"Grady Booch"},
    {"quote":"I think our drug of choice these days is knowing who we're better than.","attribution":"anonymous"},
    {"quote":"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.","attribution":"Jules de Gaultier"},
    {"quote":"The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.","attribution":"Georg C. Lichtenberg (1602)"},
    {"quote":"It is shameful and sad how many root causes fester while people build processes to make the symptoms tolerable.","attribution":"Tim Ottinger"},
    {"quote":"Every manager supposes that they are doing their best. They are, and this is the problem.","attribution":"W. Edwards Deming"},
    {"quote":"Talent is insignifigant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.","attribution":"James A. Baldwin"},
    {"quote":"The question that drives evangelism for me is: are people aware? The question that drives advocacy is: are people successful?","attribution":"Josh Dzielak"},
    {"quote":"Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn't happen.","attribution":"Mikko Hypponen"},
    {"quote":"Why would you ever spend a few minutes reading the documentation when you can spend a few hours randomly trying things? ","attribution":"Ali spittel"},
    {"quote":"Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.","attribution":"Dee Hock"},
    {"quote":"-just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.","attribution":"Toni Morrison"},
    {"quote":"When you're finished changing, you're finished.","attribution":"Fortune Cookie Fortune, Lucky Numbers 49, 31, 14, 46, 8, 34"},
    {"quote":"It is not the domain experts knowledge that goes to production, it is the assumption of the developers.","attribution":"Alberto Brandolini"},
    {"quote":"There is only one corner of the universe we can be certain of improving, and that's our own selves.","attribution":"Aldous Huxley"},
    {"quote":"Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.","attribution":"Stephen King"},
    {"quote":"First let chaos reign, then reign in chaos.","attribution":"Andy Grove"},
    {"quote":"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.","attribution":"Angela Davis"},
    {"quote":"The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.","attribution":"Kathy Sierra"},
    {"quote":"Before you disturb the system in any way, watch how it behaves.","attribution":"Donella Meadows"},
    {"quote":"Being a genius doesn't excuse being an asshole.","attribution":"Cindy Cohn"},
    {"quote":"The code you write is future tech debt. The problem you help solve are business value.","attribution":"Silvia Botros"},
    {"quote":"Forcing people to have an answer to every problem they report is an obstacle that makes it harder for them to report problems.","attribution":"L. David Marquet"},
    {"quote":"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?","attribution":"Bertolt Brecht"},
    {"quote":"'Reality' is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. And every moment is a new and shocking Transvaluation of all we have ever been.","attribution":"Robert Anton Wilson, T.S. Eliot"},
    {"quote":"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.","attribution":"Frank Herbert"},
    {"quote":"A designer's aim is always to intensify comprehension.","attribution":"Ladislav Sutnar"},
    {"quote":"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.","attribution":"Francis Bacon"},
    {"quote":"Beware the investment activity that produces applause. The great moves are usually greated by yawns.","attribution":"Warren Buffett"},
    {"quote":"Don't underestimate the compounding awesomeness of continually fixing small broken things.","attribution":"Michael Lopp"},
    {"quote":"When people are holding on tightly to the past, it's because there is something they value and they have no idea of what might be valuable in the future.","attribution":"Esther Derby"},
    {"quote":"If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.","attribution":"Alan Turing"},
    {"quote":"Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.","attribution":"Stephen King"},
    {"quote":"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.","attribution":"Bertrand Russell"},
    {"quote":"People won't self-organize around systems they don't understand. People won't make experiments if they're afraid of breaking invisible things.","attribution":"Alberto Brandolini"},
    {"quote":"Not everything faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.","attribution":"James A. Baldwin"},
    {"quote":"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.","attribution":"Octavia E. Butler"},
    {"quote":"Either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.","attribution":"Benjamin Franklin"},
    {"quote":"Everything is narrative. The stories we tell our kids is the world those kids create.","attribution":"Clarence Young"},
    {"quote":"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.","attribution":"Edward Abbey"},
    {"quote":"How we frame the problem - and who we frame as the problem - shapes the answers we find.","attribution":"Kendi"},
    {"quote":"A jumbo jet is complicated, a good mayonnaise is complex. No-one wants to fly in a plane with emergent properties.","attribution":"Paul Cilliers"},
    {"quote":"If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.","attribution":"Jim Henson"},
    {"quote":"A complex system cannot be reduced to a collection of its basic constituents, not because the system is not constituted by them, but because too much of the relational information gets lost in the process.","attribution":"Paul Cilliers"},
    {"quote":"The secret to being productive is to work on the right thing—even if it's at a slow pace.","attribution":"James Clear"},
    {"quote":"[In a changing world] the ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.","attribution":"Arie de Geus"},
    {"quote":"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.","attribution":"Andy Warhol"},
    {"quote":"The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity; mastering multitude & avoiding its chaos as effectively as possible.","attribution":"Edsger W. Dijkstra"},
    {"quote":"If you want to learn to do a thing both well and fast, then do it well and slow for approximately forever.","attribution":"Jessica Kerr"},
    {"quote":"Code is for humans. If it was exclusively for computers, we'd have no need for a high-level language like Javascript or Python.","attribution":"Devon Campbell"},
    {"quote":"Management's job is to improve the system. Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not. Management's job is to look ahead. Management's job is to optimize the whole system.","attribution":"W. Edward Deming"},
    {"quote":"Humans have better things to do than pretend to be machines.","attribution":"Amber Case"},
    {"quote":"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.","attribution":"Howard Thurman"},
    {"quote":"Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you just foresee that you need them.","attribution":"Ron Jeffries"},
    {"quote":"I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.","attribution":"Brené Brown"},
    {"quote":"If you want to transform your culture, start with yourself as a leader.","attribution":"Jim Whitehurst"},
    {"quote":"Coordination and communication swamp all other costs in modern software development.","attribution":"Kellan Elliott-McCrea"},
    {"quote":"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.","attribution":"Orson Welles"},
    {"quote":"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.","attribution":"Charles Bukowski"},
    {"quote":"The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.","attribution":"Harlan Ellison."},
    {"quote":"Programmers have to fight against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and stupidity.","attribution":"Damian Conway"},
    {"quote":"It is not the domain experts knowledge that goes to production, it is the assumption of the developers.","attribution":"Alberto Brandolini"},
    {"quote":"A program is not only code written to be executed by a machine; primarily it is a letter, written in a formal language by a programmer, where he explains to another programmer which problem he had and how he solved it.","attribution":"Mario Fusco"},
    {"quote":"You haven't mastered a tool until you understand when it should not be used.","attribution":"Kelsey Hightower"},
    {"quote":"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions.","attribution":"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."},
    {"quote":"Collaboration without a common language is just noise before failure.","attribution":"Simon Wardley"},
    {"quote":"Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.","attribution":"Sun Tzu"},
    {"quote":"One of the biggest fallacies in tech is that you can solve culture problems by writing the perfect piece of code.","attribution":"Caitie McCaffrey"},
    {"quote":"Most people want to improve, but few want to hear from an outsider - or from anyone else for that matter - that they are wrong.","attribution":"Esther Derby"},
    {"quote":"There are things that can be measured. There are things that are worth measuring. But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no realtionship to what we really want to know.","attribution":"Jerry Z. Muller"},
    {"quote":"Human intelligence is dynamic, multi sensory, complex, uncertain, and interactive. AI today is still simple, static, and disembodied.","attribution":"Dr. Fei-Fei Li"},
    {"quote":"Every line of code has an ethical dimension. Deciding to not write code for ethical reasons falls within this definition.","attribution":"Grady Booch"},
    {"quote":"The myth of management is that it exists. The myth of communications is that it occurred. The myth of software is that it's ever done.","attribution":"Andy Hunt"},
    {"quote":"If we could fix trust, we could fix the system architecture.","attribution":"anonymous"},
    {"quote":"The essense of systems is relationships, interfaces, form, fit and function.","attribution":"Eberhardt Rechtin"},
    {"quote":"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.","attribution":"Chuck Palahniuk"},
    {"quote":"A good manager does their best to empower their people within the system. A great manager does their best to dismantle any system that takes people's power away in the first place.","attribution":"Doc Norton"},
    {"quote":"Advocating for quality is like advocating for virtue, or for fairness; it's empty advocacy until we agree on what we mean.","attribution":"Michael Bolton"},
    {"quote":"Absorb what is useful; discard what is not; add what is uniquely your own.","attribution":"Bruce Lee"},
    {"quote":"Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.","attribution":"Douglas Adams"},
    {"quote":"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.","attribution":"James A. Baldwin"},
    {"quote":"Looking at life from a different perspective makes you realize that it's not the deer crossing the road, rather it is the road crossing the forest.","attribution":"Muhammed Ali"},
    {"quote":"It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago.","attribution":"Roger von Oech"},
    {"quote":"If you care about productivity, you care about internal code quality. If you want to go faster tomorrow, you care about the quality of the code you wrote today.","attribution":"GeePaw Hill"},
    {"quote":"Investments in technology are also investments in people, and these investments will make our technology process more sustainable.","attribution":"Nicole Forsgren"},
    {"quote":"The human soul doesn't want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed - to be seen, heard, and companioned exactly as it is.","attribution":"Parker J. Palmer"},
    {"quote":"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.","attribution":"Edsger Djikstra"},
    {"quote":"Good management is more about gardening than firefighting.","attribution":"Marco Rodgers"},
    {"quote":"One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.","attribution":"Jack Kerouac"},
    {"quote":"Cooperation requires conflict but not coersion.","attribution":"Kristof Van Tomme"},
    {"quote":"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.","attribution":"Charles Bukowski"},
    {"quote":"Writing is not fun, but having written is great.","attribution":"Glen Weldon"},
    {"quote":"You can only convince people who think they can benefit from being convinced.","attribution":"Nassim Taleb"},
    {"quote":"Autonomy has become compulsive, we need to remember we are still tribal creatures that require tribal safety.","attribution":"Danielle Braun"},
    {"quote":"If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.","attribution":"Kenneth Boulding"},
    {"quote":"Become the gatekeeper, then dismantle the gates.","attribution":"Michelle Lee"},
    {"quote":"If you want people to do a good job for you, then you must design a good job to do.","attribution":"Frederick Herzberg"},
    {"quote":"A good listener is a witness, not a judge of your experience.","attribution":"Michael P. Nichols"},
    {"quote":"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.","attribution":"from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin"},
    {"quote":"We each become our most intellectually capacious self because of the care we have put into our relations with each other.","attribution":"Kyla Wazana Tompkins"},
    {"quote":"Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.","attribution":"Dorothea Tanning"},
    {"quote":"What we really need to study is how the world gets put back together. I'm not talking about the election of new officials or the release of new technologies, but rather the everyday work of maintenance, caretaking, and repair.","attribution":"Shannon Mattern"},
    {"quote":"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.","attribution":"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."},
    {"quote":"It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.","attribution":"W.C. Fields"},
    {"quote":"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.","attribution":"Gore Vidal"},
    {"quote":"You can tell a lot about someone with what they do with their pain - do they transform it or do they transmit it?","attribution":"Richard Rohr"},
    {"quote":"It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.","attribution":"Edwin Land"},
    {"quote":"Software ate the world, so all the world's problems get expressed in software.","attribution":"Benedict Evans"},
    {"quote":"The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.","attribution":"Grady Booch"},
    {"quote":"The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.","attribution":"Arthur Nielsen"},
    {"quote":"Time moves in one direction, memory in another.","attribution":"William Gibson"},
    {"quote":"The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.","attribution":"Alan Watts"},
    {"quote":"The first step in any project is to grossly underestimate its complexity and difficulty.","attribution":"Nicoll Hunt"},
    {"quote":"Software development is a game of insight, and insight comes to the prepared, rested, relaxed mind.","attribution":"Kent Back"},
    {"quote":"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.","attribution":"Hans Christian Andersen"},
    {"quote":"Plainly, to store is to expedite, since what is stored is also more accessible than what has to be gathered.","attribution":"Marshall McLuhan"},
    {"quote":"Program to an interface, not an implementation.","attribution":"Gang of Four, 1994"},
    {"quote":"The problem itself is grasped in the course of the design process.","attribution":"Christiane Floyd"},
    {"quote":"There are three things that will turn your stomach if see how it's made: Sausage, Politics, and Software.","attribution":"Old Software Adage"},
    {"quote":"Technology can bring benefits if, and only if, it diminishes a limitation","attribution":"Eli Goldratt"},
    {"quote":"Hope is a discipline.","attribution":"Mariame Kaba"},
    {"quote":"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.","attribution":"Nathaniel Hawthorne"},
    {"quote":"The only recognizable feature of hope is action.","attribution":"Grace Paley"},
    {"quote":"When there is no hope it is incumbent on us to invent it.","attribution":"Albert Camus"},
    {"quote":"All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change.","attribution":"Octavia Butler"},
    {"quote":"You are what you boost.","attribution":"Jeff Atwood"},
    {"quote":"If one has a hammer one tends to look for nails, and if one has a computer with a storage capacity, but no feelings, one is more likely to concern oneself with remembering and with problem solving than with loving and hating.","attribution":"Silvan Tomkins"},
    {"quote":"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.","attribution":"Leslie Lamport in CACM, June 1992"},
    {"quote":"It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.","attribution":"Aldous Huxley"},
    {"quote":"You have to learn to love yourself before you can learn other forms of magic.","attribution":"Donni Saphire"},
    {"quote":"We are all in this together, and that includes the people who think we are not.","attribution":"Carl Ingalls"},
    {"quote":"Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people.","attribution":"Dee Hock"},
    {"quote":"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.","attribution":"E.B. White"},
    {"quote":"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.","attribution":"Edgar Allan Poe"},
    {"quote":"Sustainablity always looks like underutilization when compared to resource extraction.","attribution":"Deb Chachra"},
    {"quote":"The problem with quick and dirty, is that the dirty remains long after the quick has been forgoten.","attribution":"Steve C. McConnell"},
    {"quote":"Architects must have self-repairing egos.","attribution":"Dana Bredemeyer"},
    {"quote":"Design turns beliefs about how we should live into objects and environments people will use and inhabit.","attribution":"Cennydd Bowles"},
    {"quote":"Software design is an exercise in human relationships.","attribution":"Kent Beck"},
    {"quote":"There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.","attribution":"Barbara Ehrenreich"},
    {"quote":"The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.","attribution":"Bryan Stevenson"},
    {"quote":"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.","attribution":"Vladimir Lenin"},
    {"quote":"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.","attribution":"Father John Culkin"},
    {"quote":"The expert adopts a highly suspicious stance to notice and pursue small discrepancies despite the workload pressures and attentional demands.","attribution":"David Woods"},
    {"quote":"The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.","attribution":"Wyndham Lewis"},
    {"quote":"If the phonetic alphabet felt like a bombshell on tribal man, the printing press hit him like a 100-megaton H-bomb.","attribution":"Marshall McLuhan"},
    {"quote":"Corruption makes a few people very rich, infrastructure makes a lot of people a bit rich.","attribution":"Quinn Norton"},
    {"quote":"A crisis is the end of an illusion.","attribution":"Jerry Weinberg"},
    {"quote":"If you want to change the future, start living as if you were already there.","attribution":"Lynn Conway"},
    {"quote":"Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don't understand how anything works.","attribution":"Anonymous"},
    {"quote":"Optimization is intrinsically brittle, because it's about closely matching the output to the conditions, which means it's vulnerable if those conditions change.","attribution":"Deb Chachra"},
    {"quote":"A truly optimized, and thus efficient, system is only possible with near-perfect knowledge about the system, together with the ability to observe and implement a response. For a system to be reliable, on the other hand, there have to be some unused resources to draw on when the unexpected happens, which, well, happens predictably.","attribution":"Mandy Brown"},
    {"quote":"The sensible thing to do is not to revolt against the inevitable, but to use and modify it, to make it serve your purposes. Machines exist; let us exploit them to create beauty--a modern beauty, while we are about it. For we live in the twentieth century; let us frankly admit it and not pretend we live in the fifteenth.","attribution":"Aldous Huxley"},
    {"quote":"Be sand, not oil, to the machinery of the world.","attribution":"Günter Eich"},
    {"quote":"The natural state of software is failure, just like the natural state of a ship is to sink. In both cases, only massive and constant human intervention prevent this.","attribution":"Nick Simmonds"},
    {"quote":"All complex systems are inherently unstable, and operate at the endge of chaos; resilient complex systems have mechanisms that allow them to return to balance in the face of instability.","attribution":"Grady Booch"},
    {"quote":"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.","attribution":"Aristotle"},
    {"quote":"Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.","attribution":"Anne Carson"},
    {"quote":"Everyone supports 'change' and 'innovation' till they have to move their desk.","attribution":"Damon Kiesow"},
    {"quote":"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.","attribution":"Agile Manifesto"},
    {"quote":"Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual—it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.","attribution":"William Zinsser"},
    {"quote":"Leadership is the art of accomplishing goals through other people.","attribution":"Daniel Goleman"},
    {"quote":"Whenever one person stands up and says, 'wait a minute, this is wrong,' it helps other people do the same.","attribution":"Gloria Steinem"},
    {"quote":"It's always more interesting to discuss which of two things we should do next, rather than whether something is worth doing.","attribution":"Will Larson"},
    {"quote":"Meaning exists in the interaction of things, not the things themselves.","attribution":"Alicia Juarrero"},
    {"quote":"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.","attribution":"Leo Tolstoy"},
    {"quote":"A system is never the sum of its parts. It is the product of the interactions of its parts.","attribution":"Russell L. Ackoff"},
    {"quote":"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.","attribution":"Carl Sagan"},
    {"quote":"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.","attribution":"Albert Pike"},
    {"quote":"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.","attribution":"G. K. Chesterton"},
    {"quote":"Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.","attribution":"Alan Kay"},
    {"quote":"We live in hard times, not end times.","attribution":"John Stewart"},
    {"quote":"Central to any new order that can shape and direct technology and human destiny will be a renewed emphasis on the concept of justice.","attribution":"Ursula M. Franklin"},
    {"quote":"Know how to learn. Then, want to learn.","attribution":"Katherine Johnson"},
    {"quote":"The world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what's possible.","attribution":"Margaret J Wheatley"},
    {"quote":"Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led.","attribution":"Mary Parker Follet"},
    {"quote":"There is no disconnect around technology and design that will allow us to be fully human until we pay attention to suffering, to poverty, to exclusion, to unfairness, to injustice.","attribution":"Bryan Stevenson"},
    {"quote":"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it.","attribution":"Ursula K. Le Guin"},
    {"quote":"If the architecture of the system and the architecture of the org are at odds, the architecture of the org wins.","attribution":"Ruth Malan"},
    {"quote":"I'm just a set of half-century old memes in a trench coat pretending to be a thought leader.","attribution":"Tobbe Gyllebring"},
    {"quote":"A bad system will beat a good person every time.","attribution":"W. Edwards Deming"},
    {"quote":"Ask what is possible, not what is wrong. Keep asking.","attribution":"Margaret Wheatley"},
    {"quote":"This is what language is: a habitable grief. A turn of speech for the everyday and ordinary abrasion of losses such as this which hurts just enough to be a scar and heals just enough to be a nation.","attribution":"Eavan Boland"},
    {"quote":"Any tendency to turn the public into passive consumers rather than potentially active creators is to be viewed with suspicion.","attribution":"David Byrne"},
    {"quote":"We waste years by not wanting to waste hours.","attribution":"Amos Tversky"},
    {"quote":"Writing is an integral part of the process of understanding.","attribution":"Hannah Arendt"},
    {"quote":"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.","attribution":"Jim Rohn"},
    {"quote":"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.","attribution":"Will Rogers"},
    {"quote":"You either die a startup or you live long enough to become Yahoo!","attribution":"Phil Calcado"},
    {"quote":"Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.","attribution":"C.S. Lewis"},
    {"quote":"Change the story and you change the future.","attribution":"David Corton"},
    {"quote":"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.","attribution":"Jimi Hendrix"},
    {"quote":"A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will somehow be able to express themselves lucidly and clearly in comments.","attribution":"Kevlin Henney"},
    {"quote":"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.","attribution":"Susan Sontag"},
    {"quote":"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.","attribution":"Haruki Murakami"},
    {"quote":"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o'clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you've never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride.","attribution":"Anthony Bourdain"},
    {"quote":"We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.","attribution":"Margaret J. Wheatley"},
    {"quote":"The fundamental role of buzzwords and hype cycles is to allow some form of change in the organization without revisiting or criticizing past decisions.","attribution":"Alberto Brandolini"},
    {"quote":"First, history is about power - power to define what matters and why it matters. The second thing is that history is actually not about the past; history is about the future.","attribution":"Damion Thomas"},
    {"quote":"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.","attribution":"C.S. Lewis"},
    {"quote":"Growth is an increase in size or number. Development is an increase in competence. Growth is a matter of earning; development is a matter of learning.","attribution":"Russell Ackoff"},
    {"quote":"Good managers give away just about everything that lands on their plate to members of their team because their job isn't building the product, their job is building a team that is capable of building the product.","attribution":"Michael Lopp"},
    {"quote":"To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.","attribution":"Octavia Butler"},
    {"quote":"Something unknown is doing we don't know what.","attribution":"Arthur Eddington"},
    {"quote":"Change is an emotion, not a list","attribution":"Gaping Void"},
    {"quote":"Humans are pattern seeking, storytelling animals. We weave narratives around those patterns to give them meaning.","attribution":"Michael Shermer"},
    {"quote":"The only thing more difficult than starting something new in an organisation is stopping something old.","attribution":"Russell Ackoff"},
    {"quote":"Culture doesn't change easily. It tends to snap back. True change involves changing hundreds of little day-to-day decisions. That's hard, even when people want to make those changes, and full buy-in is hard to come by","attribution":"James Shore"},
    {"quote":"One of the best programming skills you can have is knowing when to walk away for awhile.","attribution":"Oscar Godson"},
    {"quote":"It's part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality.","attribution":"Arthur C. Clarke"},
    {"quote":"Societal learning and cultural evolution are our main survival strategy, not selfish genes.","attribution":"Dr. Sally J. Goerner"},
    {"quote":"People are far too complicated to be described by mathematical variables.","attribution":"M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine"},
    {"quote":"A change in purpose changes a system profoundly, even if every element and interconnection remains the same.","attribution":"Donella Meadows"},
    {"quote":"Data are not bricks to be stacked, oil to be drilled, gold to be mined, opportunities to be harvested. Data are humans to be seen, maybe loved, hopefully taken care of.","attribution":"Inioluwa Deborah Raji"},
    {"quote":"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If they're any good, you'll have to ram them down their throats!","attribution":"Howard Aiken"},
    {"quote":"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.","attribution":"Marcel Proust"},
    {"quote":"The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it is occuring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.","attribution":"Margaret Wheatley"},
    {"quote":"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor - who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race.","attribution":"Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor"},
    {"quote":"The point of it all is not to exhaust myself trying to build a body of work that eclipses my life, but to create a heart-centered body of work.","attribution":"Holley Murchison"},
    {"quote":"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.","attribution":"Robert Louis Stevenson"},
    {"quote":"The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.","attribution":"Ursula K. Le Guin"},
    {"quote":"All my life I've prided myself on being a survivor. But surviving is just another loop.","attribution":"Maeve Millay, Westworld"},
    {"quote":"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.","attribution":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"},
    {"quote":"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.","attribution":"André Gide"}
    ] }