Probably an actual majority of the people who believe in evolution use the phrase “because of evolution” because they want to be part of the scientific in-crowd—belief as scientific attire, like wearing a lab coat.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory

…the complaint that some very successful apps are “bloated” fails to recognize that while it may be true that only 20% of an app’s functionality is essential, that 20% may be different for different users.

— Daniel Jackson, The Essence of Software

Happy people live in the present; those with meaningful lives have a narrative about their past and a plan for the future.

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

Bad visions treat technical sophistication as a self-justifying raison d’être–a view that is never shared by your company’s leadership.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer

If “that which exists” was created, it must have been created from something either “that is” or “that is not”. Nothing can be created from something “that is not”, because there is nothing there. But if “that which exists” was created from something “that is” it means that “that which exists” already existed. Therefore, “that which exists” was never created. QED.

— Haim Shapira, Eight Lessons on Infinity