My fundamental premise about the brain is that all its workings – what we sometimes call “mind” – are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology and nothing more.

— Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden

Fragility: we have been progressively separating human courage from warfare, allowing wimps with computer skills to kill people without the slightest risk to their lives.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes

…it takes is a very small number of detractors using misplaced buzzwords of the type that makes people cringe (such as “racist”) to scare an entire institution.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

Stakhanovism’s essence was a new form of individuality, of self-involvement in work. And it is this form that now finds its home as much in offices, executive suites, corporate campuses, as in schools and universities. Stakhanovism has become a movement of the individual soul.

— Bogdan Costea, Today’s management-speak has a lot in common with 1930s Soviet propaganda—and it’s making people miserable

Vim is the only thing proven to make you awesome.

— David Bryant Copeland, SOLID Is Not Solid