And do you know what ‘the world’ is to me? Shall I show it to you in my mirror? This world: a monster of energy without beginning or end, a rigid quantum of forces, unyielding as bronze, becoming neither greater nor smaller, that does not expend itself but only transforms itself … a sea of forces flowing and rushing together, in perpetual flux.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power

I would make a strong case that programming languages have not improved qualitatively in the last 40 years.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

To fear, is to act as if you await the possibility of evil.

— Søren Kierkegaard, The Works of Love

If we are to ensure that the proper talents are available when needed, we shall have to classify the work that programmers do into somewhat more refined categories than the simple term “programming” covers.

— Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming

Nowadays, however, economic class is barely mentioned unless combined “intersectionally” with some other form of marginalized identity. It is therefore no surprise that many working-class and poor people often feel profoundly alienated from today’s left—Marxists rightly identify it as having adopted very bourgeois concerns.

— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories