Sett Wai

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“It’s human to want what we need, and it’s human to desire what we don’t need but find desirable.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Tests that measure a person’s capacity to manage many problems at the expense of depth suit an economic regime that prizes quick study, superficial knowledge, all too often embodied by consultants who dart in and out of organizations. The craftsman’s ability to dig deep stands at the pole opposite from potential ability deployed in this fashion.”
― Richard Sennett, The Craftsman

“Good craftsmanship implies socialism. The workings of a modern Japanese auto plant or a Linux chat room might have expanded their sympathy for collaboration of other sorts, but still, all three disputed the pursuit of quality simply as a means to profit.”
― Richard Sennett, The Craftsman