We thus see that the freshest and most delicious foods are eaten by two groups of people: the relatively poor, who have no choice, and the relatively rich, who spend lots of money trying to re-create the food supply networks that the relatively poor have been working with for centuries.

— Tyler Cowen, An Economist Gets Lunch

Changing course based on evidence is the definition of agility. My goal wasn’t to deliver all the slides I’d prepared. My goal was to teach this specific audience the basics of OKRs

— Jeff Gothelf, Forget Agile. The Goal Is Agility.

The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life, in particular, understanding and outmaneuvering objects, animals, plants, and other people.

— Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works

You’re efficient when you do something with minimum waste. And you’re effective when you’re doing the right something. It’s possible to be one without the other…

— Tom DeMarco, Slack

“Science and technology directly affect our students in many ways, both positive and negative: they have led to life-saving medicines, the internet, more efficient energy storage, and digital entertainment; they also have shepherded nuclear weapons, biological warfare agents, electronic eavesdropping, and damage to the environment.” Well, yes, and I suppose one could say that architecture has produced both museums and gas chambers, that classical music both stimulates economic activity and inspired the Nazis, and so on.

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now