* "A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering." (Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the universe)

* Art is any science having more than seven variables (https://youtu.be/yEjFPItDomY?t=96)

* "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" ― Buckminster Fuller (to be verified. found via: https://azlen.me/quick-ideas/learning/#1)

* “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” - Carl Sagan (Cosmos?)

* Wishful thinking: essential to good engineering, and certainly essential to good computer science. - Jerry Sussman in SICP lecture 2A https://www.youtube.com/embed/eJeMOEiHv8c?start=3064&end=3070

*In general, I think people who really believe that you design everything before you implement it, basically are people who haven't designed very many things. - Hal Abelson in SICP lecture  2B https://www.youtube.com/embed/DrFkf-T-6Co?start=2291&end=2299

* "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented." - Dennis Gabor http://gabordenes.mtak.hu/en_uzenet.html

* The day your vision, what you think needs to be done, is bigger than what you can do single-handedly, then you have to move toward management - W. Richard Hamming in "You and your research"

* A twentieth century problem is that technology has become too "easy". When it was hard to do anything whether good or bad, enough time was taken so that the result was usually good. Now we can make things almost trivially, especially in software, but most of the designs are trivial as well. This is inverse vandalism: the making of things because you can. - Alan Kay (The early history of Smalltalk) http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

* The whole life of our higher classes is one solid contradiction, which is the more agonizing, the more sensitive man’s conscience is. - Tolstoy (The Kingdom of God is within you) https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leo-tolstoy/the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you/leo-wiener/text/single-page