It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought

After two and a half millennia of virtual stagnation on some of philosophy’s most notorious stumpers, perhaps it’s time to place our hope in the next generation of posthuman philosophers.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

…frameworks can easily get in the way, either by making too many assumptions that constrain domain design choices or by making the implementation so heavyweight that development slows down.

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

It is not an accident that the research behind the Accelerate book found that one of the defining characteristics of high-performing teams, based on measures of stability and throughput, is that they can make decisions within the team, without seeking permission from, or coordination with, other groups. Such teams are informationally decoupled.

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering

One of the simplest and most effective techniques to learn something is to try to teach it.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning