- "What I cannot create, I do not understand" — Richard Feynman (physicist, 1918-1988)
- "An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity, a physicist tries to make it simple, for an idiot anything the more complicated it is the more he will admire it, if you make something so clusterfucked he can't understand it he's gonna think you're a god cause you made it so complicated nobody can understand it. That's how they write journals in Academics, they try to make it so complicated people think you're a genius" — Terry Davis (GOAT programmer, 1969-2018)
- "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge" — Daniel Boorstin (historian, 1914-2004)
- "The devil’s at his strongest while we’re looking the other way, like a program running in the background silently, while we’re busy doing other shit. Daemons, they call them. They perform action without user interaction. Monitoring, logging, notifications, primal urges, repressed memories, unconscious habits. They’re always there, always active. You can try to be right, you can try to be good, you can try to make a difference. But it’s all bullshit. ‘Cause intentions are irrelevant. They don’t drive us, daemons do." — Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, S1E04: eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4