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“Obviously. If you’re planning to take on a boss, you’re not going to win unless your level is high enough for whatever they’re going to throw at you.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 1

“The mask and the truth, the performance and the real self, the player and the character—their paths diverged according to which side of each dichotomy they valued more.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“It’s my pet theory that the best games are always the simplest. The game of life looks like it doesn’t have any rules, but actually, it’s just an elegant, complex intersection of the simplest rules. You said life’s a shitty game, but that’s ridiculous. There’s no better game in the world. You just don’t know it yet… Nanashi is a great gamer, so how can I let him keep losing at such a wonderful game? …Tomozaki-kun, I’m going to give you an offer—no, an order.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 1

“Companies often wonder what to outsource and what not to. One possible answer: outsource any job that’s not directly exposed to competitive pressure, because outsourcing it will thereby expose it to competitive pressure. (I mean “outsource” in the sense of hiring another company to do it, not the more specific sense of hiring an overseas company.)”
― Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age