I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
~ John Wycliffe

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is.
~ Winston Churchill

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
~ John Lubbock

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
~ Herbert Simon

The most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough.
~ Eric Steven Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming, Plan 9: The Way the Future Was

Two things I ask of you, O Lord [...]:
Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.
Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say "Who is the Lord?"
Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
~ Proverbs 30:7–9

If I pray and weep for freedom from the tyranny of kings, how can I accept the yoke of bein' owned by things? That is another tyranny sure, but slavery of my soul, just the same. Do I belong to my possessions? I ask myself sometimes. If I can't give them up [...], then I am not a free man.
~ Bodie and Brock Thoene, Of Men and Angels