“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”

“Because our value is a gift, we don't have to prove ourselves, only to express ourselves...”

“Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.”

“Why is it that we are constantly proving the world wrong but never proving ourselves right?”

“We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.”

“Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. ”