The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

— Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

The computer and its multifarious peripherals are the materials. The code is the art.

— Paul Ford, What Is Code? If You Don’t Know, You Need to Read This

…scientific training is not well designed to produce the man who will easily discover a fresh approach.

— Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

…when wealth is something you’re given, then of course it seems that it should be distributed equally.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

For programs at the scope that industry generally tackles, the long-term negative of language unsuitability quickly outweighs the short-term benefit of language familiarity.

— Adam Barr, The Problem With Software