Postcolonial Theory establishes much of its claim to importance by assuming there must be permanent problems that have been handed down to us through language constructed centuries ago.

— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories

…postmodernist critics of science often grossly fail to understand the empirical claims of science and the ways in which its key theoretical terms work, and often subsitute for them, when they apply scientific modes of thought to the political world, a number of tendentiously vague and misleading metaphors.

— Christopher Butler, Postmodernism

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we respond to noise.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

There is one particular attitude that will surely ruin a framework. Don’t write frameworks for dummies…

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

…you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.

— Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann, Super Thinking