Given that programmers, as a species, introduced entire classes of security errors in C code just to avoid a little extra typing, it’s understandable why people are unwilling to be the first person into the unit test breach.

— Adam Barr, The Problem With Software

My experience with being on pedestals is that, inevitably, you fall off…

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

I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.

— Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

The postmodern knowledge principle assumes that knowledge is a socially constructed cultural artifact. This is true in a banal sense, but false in the profound sense that postmodernism intends.

— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories

Human beings don’t learn things very well in the abstract. As the research on transfer demonstrates, most people learn abstract, general rules only after being exposed to many concrete examples.

— Scott Young, Ultralearning