Colette

“I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1832–1858

“Thought again of the City as an algorithm: considered, for the first time clearly, that no algorithm was innocent of its designers. It couldn’t be. There was an originating purpose for an algorithm, however distant in its past—a reason some human person made it, even if it had evolved and folded in on itself and transformed.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

“Wizards had always known that the act of observation changed the thing that was observed, and sometimes forgot that it also changed the observer too.”
― Terry Pratchett

“CARL SAGAN SAID that if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star