If you refuse to let your own suffering lie upon you even for an hour and if you constantly try to prevent and forestall all possible distress way ahead of time; if you experience suffering and displeasure as evil, hateful, worthy of annihilation, and as a defect of existence, then it is clear that [you harbour in your heart] … the religion of comfortableness. How little you know of human happiness, you comfortable … people, for happiness and unhappiness are sisters and even twins that either grow up together or, as in your case, remain small together.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

the nature of man is not his internal structure but the network of personal, familial and social interactions within which he exists.

— Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems

…a strong correlation exists between comprehensiveness of testing and ease of implementing an evolutionary architecture.

— Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua, Building Evolutionary Architectures

…if you were to claim that everything is subjective, I could ask, “Is that statement subjective?” If it is, then you are free to believe it, but I don’t have to. Or suppose you claim that everything is relative. Is that statement relative? If it is, then it may be true for you right here and now but not for anyone else or after you’ve stopped talking.

— Steven Pinker, Rationality

…hot takes, thought leaders, conference speakers, and book authors all giving their opinions about their experience and trying to generalize those into rules about how to be a good programmer…all without any real evidence other than survivorship bias.

— David Bryant Copeland, SOLID Is Not Solid