This lack of luck is attributed to the lack of potential. Kids coming from families with fewer resources usually have access to worse education than their wealthy peers, and thus they end up having lower skilled jobs and lower income levels. Their poverty is reinforced at each stage of life.

— Albert Rutherford, The Elements of Thinking in Systems

No one can think fast enough to deliberate, in words, about each sentence of their stream of consciousness; for that would require an infinite recursion.

— Map and Territory, Eliezer Yudkowsky

Research by Dan Kahan and colleagues at the Yale Cultural Cognition Project[2] has shown time and again that when confronted with policy issues involving tradeoffs involving technological benefits and risks, it turns out that those who identify as liberals (egalitarians and communitarians) in particular fear change and—to quote Jost—“reject out of hand scientific findings that might be experienced as disagreeable.”

— Michael Shermer, Joe Carter, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ronald Bailey, and Jason Kuznicki, Brain, Belief, and Politics

…a type checker is just a Neanderthal correctness-prover.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers.

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month