Douglas Adams quotations to live by

It feels prescient, and the kind of thing we're going to be living through sooner rather than later.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

And user interfaces:

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."

Some things you should care enough about to do badly.