…the best software developers I have worked with wrote good software whatever tools they chose to apply.

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering

The Dalai Lama is conceding that a rational and caring individual is going to have to engage in, or at least support, certain acts of violence, including murder.

— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy

All opinions are subjective, except the ones you explicitly label as objective. If you start a sentence with, “Objectively speaking,” anything you say afterward must be 100 percent correct in every context and all circumstances no matter what your coworker thinks.

— Sarah Cooper, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings

Everybody dies. Life is not a substance, like water or rock; it’s a process, like fire or a wave crashing on the shore. It’s a process that begins, lasts for a while, and ultimately ends. Long or short, our moments are brief against the expanse of eternity.

— Sean Carroll, The Big Picture

Relatively few people want to think. Thinking troubles us; thinking tires us. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits; thinking can complicate our lives; thinking can set us at odds, or at least complicate our relationships, with those we admire or love or follow.

— Alan Jacobs, How to Think