We don’t start out with a moral duty to “reduce bias,” simply because biases are bad and evil and Just Not Done. This is the sort of thinking someone might end up with if they acquired a deontological duty of “rationality” by social osmosis, which leads to people trying to execute techniques without appreciating the reason for them.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory

I have a feeling tomorrow will be better is different from I resolve to make tomorrow better. The hope that gritty people have has nothing to do with luck and everything to do with getting up again.

— Angela Duckworth, Grit

Religion isn’t so much about telling man that there is one God as about preventing man from thinking that he is God.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

I asked a friend, whose code I admire, if he had any recommendations to demonstrate the importance of cohesion, and he recommended the Sesame Street YouTube video, “One of these things is not like another.”

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering