Bad visions treat technical sophistication as a self-justifying raison d’être–a view that is never shared by your company’s leadership.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer

If “that which exists” was created, it must have been created from something either “that is” or “that is not”. Nothing can be created from something “that is not”, because there is nothing there. But if “that which exists” was created from something “that is” it means that “that which exists” already existed. Therefore, “that which exists” was never created. QED.

— Haim Shapira, Eight Lessons on Infinity

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

— E. F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed

The universe then is not just determined by the inevitable succession of events, but also in a small way by our conceptions of future possibilities.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

The claim “Everything is subjective” must be nonsense, for it would itself have to be either subjective or objective. But it can’t be objective, since in that case it would be false if true. And it can’t be subjective, because then it would not rule out any objective claim, including the claim that it is objectively false. There may be some subjectivists, perhaps styling themselves as pragmatists, who present subjectivism as applying even to itself. But then it does not call for a reply, since it is just a report of what the subjectivist finds it agreeable to say. If he also invites us to join him, we need not offer any reason for declining, since he has offered us no reason to accept.

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now