YAGNI is pernicious because the words as written can’t be properly understood without a ton of context.

— David Bryant Copeland, SOLID Is Not Solid

If our concern is driven by thoughts of the suffering of specific individuals, then it sets up a perverse situation in which the suffering of one can matter more than the suffering of a thousand.

— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy

Past the asceticism of discipline for the sake of excellence is the discipline of going eyeball to eyeball with reality, letting our fantasies about ourselves die a quiet death.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought

The professional kiss of death for an expert is to act like one.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

What’s left unsaid is as much a part of any narrative as what’s included.

— Ali Almossawi and Alejandro Giraldo, An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language