The postmodern knowledge principle assumes that knowledge is a socially constructed cultural artifact. This is true in a banal sense, but false in the profound sense that postmodernism intends.

— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories

Human beings don’t learn things very well in the abstract. As the research on transfer demonstrates, most people learn abstract, general rules only after being exposed to many concrete examples.

— Scott Young, Ultralearning

Developers want changes because they have a great emotional and intellectual investment in all of the system’s details.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

The mind is its own place and, in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

— John Milton, Paradise Lost

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance & Other Essays