One of the defining characteristics of high-performing teams in software development is their ability to make progress and to change their minds, without asking for permission from any person or group outside of their small team.

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering

If our minds manufacture our subjective reality, then by quieting our minds we can hope to perceive the reality underlying them.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

For people are no longer owned by a company but by something worse: the idea that they need to be employable. The employable person is embedded in an industry, with fear of upsetting not just their employer, but other potential employers.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

An old truth in programming is that even the worst mechanism is better than the best intentions.

— Rafał Świdziński, Modern CMake for C++

Math is logical play, the tomfoolery of abstraction.

— Ben Orlin, Change Is the Only Constant