Philip K. Dick wrote, reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

— Steven Pinker, Rationality

The problem with dystopian rhetoric is that if people believe that the country is a flaming dumpster, they will be receptive to the perennial appeal of demagogues: “What do you have to lose?”

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

…trying to do things they can’t yet do, failing, and learning what they need to do differently is exactly the way experts practice.

— Angela Duckworth, Grit

When organizations stop aiming for perfection and accept that all systems will occasionally fail, they stop letting their technology rot for fear of change and invest in responding faster to failure.

— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire

Code itself doesn’t bring value: it is the functionality that it provides that brings value.

— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google