…basing moral rights on intelligence is as arbitrary as using strength as the rule.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

…starting with history discourages the common and distracting tendency we all have to define a problem not by the system’s actual behavior, but by the lack of our favorite solution.

— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems

…new definition of “poverty” that the Left began to offer in the early 1960s: the poverty that capitalism causes is not absolute but relative.

— Stephen R. C. Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism

Complexity manifests itself in three general ways… Change amplification: The first symptom of complexity is that a seemingly simple change requires code modifications in many different places…Cognitive load: The second symptom of complexity is cognitive load, which refers to how much a developer needs to know in order to complete a task…Unknown unknowns: The third symptom of complexity is that it is not obvious which pieces of code must be modified to complete a task, or what information a developer must have to carry out the task successfully.

— John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design

The Romantic philosophers were not interested in taking the universe apart like a machine, in analyzing it into its smallest atoms. No, they wanted to contemplate, understand, interpret, feel and see through the world to its hidden meaning, like you do with a poem or painting.

— Bo Dalhbom and Lars Mathiassen, Struggling with Quality, The Philosophy of Developing Computer Systems