…we’ve all benefited from this model of the internet. All around the world, people have free and easy access to instant global communication networks, the wealth of human knowledge at their fingertips, up-to-the-minute information from across the earth, and unlimited usage of the most remarkable software and technology, built by private companies, paid for by adverts.

— Hannah Fry, Hello World

We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

Until that scholastic paradigm was invented, there were no pendulums, but only swinging stones, for the scientist to see.

— Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

One of your many jobs as manager is information conduit, and the rules are deceptively simple: for each piece of information you see, you must correctly determine who on your team needs that piece of information to do their job.

— Michael Lopp, Managing Humans

The entire counterculture scene of the sixties, with its weird mixture of kinky sex, pot, rock, zen, astrology, obscene language, and fusty anarchist theory, always struck me as a prime example of how quickly angry rebels turn into other-directed conformists of the most extreme sort.

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener