“The best and brightest people will gravitate toward those corporations that foster personal growth” (Naisbitt and Aburdene 1985). In other words, support for professional development is vital to the health of any corporation—and especially so in the software field.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

…conceding that you could be mistaken opens many more doors to understanding than entrenching yourself.

— Peter Hollins, Mental Models

…the world is more flexible than it seems, for the established views have frequently emerged not through a process of faultless reasoning, but through centuries of intellectual muddle. There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

I call this the three-axes model of political communication. A progressive will communicate along the oppressor-oppressed axis, framing issues in terms of the (P) dichotomy. A conservative will communicate along the civilization-barbarism axis, framing issues in terms of the (C) dichotomy. A libertarian will communicate along the liberty-coercion axis, framing issues in terms of the (L) dichotomy.

— Arnold Kling, The Three Languages of Politics

Thanks to hindsight bias, it’s also not enough to check how well your theory “predicts” facts you already know. You’ve got to predict for tomorrow, not yesterday. It’s the only way a messy human mind can be guaranteed of sending a pure forward message.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory