The greatest social consequence of the Darwinian revolution was the grudging acceptance by humans that humans were random descendants of monkeys, neither perfect nor engineered. The greatest social consequence of neo-biological civilization will be the grudging acceptance by humans that humans are the random ancestors of machines, and that as machines we can be engineered ourselves.

— Kevin Kelly, Out of Control

The spirit of revolution can spread very easily; but it can just as easily descend into chaos and ravage an entire society.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

Confronted with the fact that the platforms that are making them rich are keeping others poor, they come up with stories to explain why this must necessarily be so. And by degrading failure, anguish, and discomfort to mere stepping-stones, they erase the fact that for so many of us, these stones don’t lead anywhere.

— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking

If you work in an organization that emphasizes shipping features, then it will be easier to be rewarded for fixing an outage you cause than preventing future outages.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov