…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

“Yes” is easy. It gives you a quick fix of approval instead of the slow burn of effectiveness.

— Brennen Reece, Productivity for the Depressive Polymath

The world is a system and a network: to conceive of men as ‘free’ is to think of them as capable of having, at some past juncture, acted in some fashion other than that in which they did act; it is to think of what consequences would have come of such unfulfilled possibilities, and in what respects the world would have been different, as a result, from the world as it now is.

— Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, and Michael Ignatieff, The Hedgehog and the Fox