Edwin Tunggawan

“In contemporary culture, we are concerned that everything we do be useful for something. [...] we find ourselves in the land of half-baked pseudoscience like the “Mozart makes you smart” fad. The fact that Mozart’s fantastic play has value in itself is not sufficient because in order to justify financial and other kinds of support for the arts, we have to demonstrate that Mozart will raise a fetus’s IQ, which will make the fetus grow into a productive unit in the economy.”
― Stephen Nachmanovitch

“If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“You want freedom? Here it is: Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness

“Techniques that would be unthinkable in many textbook solutions can not only be good, but are simply required for a proper real-world working kernel. It's the small path that keeps the balance between these totally opposite faces of the kernel that makes the whole thing so interesting, challenging, and fun!”
― Wolfgang Mauerer, Professional Linux Kernel Architecture