Tolerance is a principled willingness to put up with the expression and pursuit of beliefs that you know to be wrong, for the sake of some larger ideal, like freedom of inquiry or the autonomy of others in the construction of their own narrative or identity – provided, I would say, that they don’t harm others in the process.

— Christopher Butler, Postmodernism

As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline-the illusion of the good old days.

— Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style

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