In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

It is easy, during a review, to review the work product from the point of view of what your own solution approach would be, rather than the solution approach chosen by the developer.

— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

…one thing that’s really important is to not be afraid of your ignorance.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

…the originator of the Doomsday Clock, Eugene Rabinowitch, came to regret his movement’s strategy: “While trying to frighten men into rationality, scientists have frightened many into abject fear or blind hatred.”

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

An ounce of information is worth a pound of data. An ounce of knowledge is worth a pound of information. An ounce of understanding is worth a pound of knowledge. And an ounce of wisdom is worth a pound of understanding.

— David Komlos and David Benjamin, Cracking Complexity