Putting alerts into email and hoping that someone will read all of them and notice the important ones is the moral equivalent of piping them to /dev/null: they will eventually be ignored.

— Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Richard Murphy, Site Reliability Engineering

…in politics it is the irrational passions that must be appealed to and utilized.

— Stephen R. C. Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism

epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, logic, and the like were not so much communicated as drowned in an ocean of boredom

— Hannah Arendt and Jerome Kohn, Thinking Without a Banister

…concurrency and effects—are essential to achieve good performance on today’s hardware, making nondeterminism a necessary evil.

— Jamie Allen, Reactive Design Patterns

Children as young as three or four years old start establishing dominance hierarchies in kindergarten.

— Andreas Hofer and Adrienn Raczi, Born Different