One hundred years from now, our engineering may seem as archaic as the techniques used by medieval cathedral builders seem to today’s civil engineers, while our craftsmanship will still be honored.

— Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist an imbecile-proof one, or, even better, a rationalist-proof one.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes

You need to be able to stand on the shoulders of giants to compete in this Fourth Industrial Revolution.

— Stephen Orban, Ahead in the Cloud

There are no moral phenomena at all, only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Happiness is relative. And the person hovering over the gaping maw of death will often feel the same elation from briefly escaping his miserable fate, as the free and healthy person will from his greatest accomplishment.

— Roman Gelperin, On Rotting Prison Straw