Ally

“We need to value the consequences of our actions more than the cleverness of our ideas.”
― Mike Monteiro, Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

“Some of the greatest innovations have come from people who only succeeded because they were too dumb to know that what they were doing was impossible.”
― Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

“Some subtle influence passed from him to me, and for the first time in my life I saw in the plain woodland the wonder I had always looked for, and always missed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There was a movie called Maple recently. I don’t know if you’ve seen it. At the end, an adult and a child stand in front of the grave of a Red Guard who had died during the faction civil wars. The child asks the adult, ‘Are they heroes?’ The adult says no. The child asks, ‘Are they enemies?’ The adult again says no. The child asks, ‘Then who are they?’ The adult says, ‘History.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem