Each generation of seniors has normalized the idea that fundamental knowledge is optional — that you can skip the “boring” parts and jump straight to the “interesting” stuff. We’ve created a culture where depth is seen as inefficiency, where understanding principles is less valued than knowing the latest framework. It’s like deciding that understanding arithmetic is unnecessary because calculators exist, then being surprised when the calculator breaks and nobody knows why 2+2 equals fish.

— Krzyś, The Junior Developer Extinction

If philosophy only promotes a viewpoint, it’s advertising.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

But what other place on Earth has been more congenial to believers and promoters of mad dreams and schemes of so many kinds? California is America squared.

— Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland

If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves. … There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

— Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance…

Guy Finley said, “The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities”.

— Vijay Raghunathan and Santanu Deb Barma, Digital Twin