Purpose and meaning in life arise through fundamentally human acts of creation, rather than being derived from anything outside ourselves. Naturalism is a philosophy of unity and patterns, describing all of reality as a seamless web.

— Sean Carroll, The Big Picture

…many consider the handling of whitespace (the spaces between words) in the Ruby language to be a replay of a mistake in the original C language that was fixed long ago. (Note that one of the classic ways to deal with a mistake is to call it a feature.)

— Jonathan E. Steinhart, The Secret Life of Programs

Because of increased communications and management overhead, however, you have to increase your team size by about 75 percent to achieve that 25-percent schedule reduction.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

Great things are accomplished by those “people whose thinking is active in one direction, who employ everything as material, who always zealously observe their own inner life and that of others, who perceive everywhere models and incentives, who never tire of combining together the means available to them.”

— Grit, Angela Duckworth

Some philosophers can’t bear to say simple things, like “Suppose a dog bites a man.” They feel obliged instead to say, “Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t,” thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don’t go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.

— Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves