We very often fail to think as carefully about helping others as we could, mistakenly believing that applying data and rationality to a charitable endeavor robs the act of virtue.

— William MacAskill, Doing Good Better

Every social animal has, in addition to the Darwinian “instinct” (genetic program) of self-preservation, a similar “instinct” to protect the gene-pool. This is the basis of altruism, and social animals could not survive without it.

— Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising

…in academia there is no difference between academia and the real world; in the real world, there is.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

…the postmodernist view is difficult to fully appreciate from the outside because it looks very much like a conspiracy theory.

— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories

Starting out by saying that a large Agile framework is your destination sounds very similar to saying, “Our plan is to implement this large stack of software requirements.”

— Robert C. Martin, Clean Agile