Yet even today, when few people believe that accidents or diseases have perpetrators, discussions of poverty consist mostly of arguments about whom to blame for it.

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

There are two best kinds of reorganizations: The one that solves a structural problem. The one that you don’t do.

— Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle

Scientific inquiry is the finest example of how individuals who accept certain practices can work to surpass their individual limitations.

— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy

If a statement is false, that’s the worst thing you can say about it. You don’t need to say that it’s heretical.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

…because of the dynamic equilibrium of the software development ecosystem, predictability has expired. Enterprise architects may still make plans, but they may be invalidated at any moment.

— Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua, Building Evolutionary Architectures