You will never know for sure if someone is an asshole until he becomes rich.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes

If, by contrast, the goal is for everyone in a meeting to be nice to each other and every idea is treated as a good one, you can end up with results nobody is pleased with.

— Jim Whitehurst and Gary Hamel, The Open Organization

Thus, our architects need to shift their thinking away from creating the perfect end product, and instead focus on helping create a framework in which the right systems can emerge, and continue to grow as we learn more.

— Sam Newman, Building Microservices

In what respects would the world be different if this alternative or that were true? If I can find nothing that would become different, then the alternative has no sense.

— William James, Pragmatism

We very often fail to think as carefully about helping others as we could, mistakenly believing that applying data and rationality to a charitable endeavor robs the act of virtue.

— William MacAskill, Doing Good Better