Why did desktop computers take over? Mainly because they had better software. And the reason microcomputer software was better was that it could be written by small companies.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

It’s implausible that the necessary know-how could be gained entirely independently by the average learner. Rather, intellectual know-how in all forms, from speaking to reading to writing to reasoning, is unlocked by sustained and repeated interactions with other minds.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

When something horrible happens, our spontaneous tendency is to search for a meaning. It must mean something… Even if we interpret a catastrophe as a punishment, it makes it easier, in a way, because we know it’s not just some terrifying blind force

— Astra Taylor, Examined Life

…people find that the value placed on them by the organization based on their skills and abilities changes when organizational priorities change.

— Moe Abdula, Ingo Averdunk, Roland Barcia, Kyle Brown, and Ndu Emuchay, The Cloud Adoption Playbook

Using language that is appropriate in one linguistic framework in a different linguistic framework is what causes philosophical confusions and pseudo puzzles, also known as the history of philosophy.

— Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. . .