I know of no philosophical theist who does not agree with Ingersoll that the God of the Pentateuch is “a false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain, and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, and changeable, infamous and hideous … .”

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

…targeting your methodology to novices, you will create a poor working environment for the experienced team members, and they’ll simply leave your team and/or organization.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long-outdated belief in old ones.

— Jeffrey Fry, Distilled Thoughts

[This artist’s perspective is] to fix eternally in the patterns of an indestructible form a single moment of man’s living, a single moment of life’s beauty, passion, and unutterable eloquence, that passes, flames and goes, slipping for ever through our fingers with time’s sanded drop, flowing for ever from our desperate grasp even as a river flows and never can be held.

— Thomas Wolfe, The Web and the Rock

Rationality is uncool. To describe someone with a slang word for the cerebral, like nerd, wonk, geek, or brainiac, is to imply they are terminally challenged in hipness.

— Steven Pinker, Rationality