A good technical argument is one that eliminates reliance on the personal authority of the speaker.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind

…the way this economy works, if you spend your working life caring for others, you’ll end up so underpaid and so deeply in debt you won’t be able to care for your own family.

— David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

The fact that you are surrounded by chaotic systems is a key reason why adaptability is so important to your success.

— Gabriel Weinberg, Lauren McCann, Super Thinking

Mathematically described models have a great advantage: they can be adapted for computers using well established math techniques. If your model has graphs, use graph theory. If it has equations, use algebra.

— Wladston Ferreira Filho, Computer Science Distilled

Are not the architects a new aristocracy, an intellectual elite, set up to tell the poor dumb implementers what to do?

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month