To reach excellence, problems need to turn into opportunities for learning and improvement, not just survival.

— Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres, Extreme Programming Explained

A single intense, out-of-context classroom event can only get you started in the right direction, at best.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

For the Greeks, the polis — the city community — was more than a home, it was a kind of religion, the basis of all ethical commitment.

— Lloyd Spencer, Introducing Hegel

Moore’s law for silicon is actually the fifth wave of technologies displaying two-year doubling.

For context, Moore’s Law applies to integrated circuits and the four previous technologies are electromechanical, relay, vacuum tube, and transistors.

— Peter J. Denning and Matti Tedre, Computational Thinking

those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.

— F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty