Research has shown that organizational culture is predictive of technology and organizational performance, is predictive of performance outcomes, and that team dynamics and psychological safety are the most important aspects in understanding team performance…

— Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim, Accelerate

According to Locke, those free from the necessity of work are not a class of people with greater access to happiness, as Aristotle thought, but are instead likely to be morally corrupt, and in fact deprived of the opportunity and ability to rationally create themselves, and are thereby incapable of happiness.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

Liberalism (libertarianism) rises above and rejects the primitive moralities embodied in the universalist collectivism of progressives and the tribalist collectivism of conservatives. In doing so, it made the rule of law, freedom of speech, religious tolerance, and modern prosperity possible.

— Michael Shermer, Joe Carter, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ronald Bailey, and Jason Kuznicki, Brain, Belief, and Politics

I cannot go along with Protestant efforts to alter the Bible’s language in ways intended to eliminate male chauvinism. I find it offensive to change the plain meaning of its sentences into meanings the authors clearly did not intend.

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

Anyone who grows up watching TV, never sees any religion or philosophy, is raised in an atmosphere of moral relativism, learns about civics from watching bimbo eruptions on network TV news, and attends a university where postmodernists vie to outdo each other in demolishing traditional notions of truth and quality, is going to come out into the world as one pretty feckless human being.

— Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning…Was the Command Line