Herman Melville

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.