“There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”

“Hacking is all about gaining access to things that we’re not meant to.”

“We are all both the puppet and the puppeteer. If there was no such thing as a puppet, there would be no such thing as a puppeteer, and vice versa.”

“If you live as if you’ll die tomorrow, and you don’t, you risk killing yourself today. If you live as if you won’t die tomorrow, you risk never living today.”

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.”

“You’ll know when you know.”

“It’s all we got. Most of our lives would fill a small novel. A small, stupid, beautiful little novel.”

“Even time needs time.

“Good tools are critical. For whatever you’re doing, ask the most senior engineer you know what their favorite tool is for it. If that person isn’t immediately available, ask the best language model (you’ll trade off precision but still get surprisingly good recall). If there isn’t a good tool, make one.”