Information at second hand always gives an impression of tidiness, in contrast with the data at the scientist’s disposal, full of gaps and uncertainties.

— Stanislaw Lem, Seth Shostak, and Michael Kandel, His Master’s Voice

Moral relativism is clearly an attempt to pay intellectual reparations for the crimes of Western colonialism, ethnocentrism, and racism.

— Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape

…your software project operates along four important dimensions: people, process, product, and technology.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earth’s is a pond and a backwater. The sign of doom is written on your brows - how long will ye kick against the pin-pricks? But there is one conquest and one crown, one redemption and one solution. Know yourselves - be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

…action will almost always tell you more than analysis before the fact.

— Peter Hollins, Mental Models