…the difficult lesson that you’re only ever as smart as the person you’re speaking with.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

If you have a network of thousands of dependencies underneath your product, you should be prepared for some amount of chaos simply from human error.

— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google

Our civilisation is founded on greed and fear, but in the lives of common men the greed and fear are mysteriously transmuted into something nobler.

— George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

…problem solving style was unique to the individual. Thus, anything that forces a programmer to think in another person’s style reduces that programmer’s ability to solve problems.

— Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming

If you want to think about evil, real evil, a better way to proceed is this: Don’t think about what other people have done to you; think instead about your own actions that hurt others, that made others want you to apologize and make amends.

— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy