But I think a big sin in our area, in engineering, is doing stuff just because it’s neat, because it’s good engineering, whatever. If you’re not solving real problems for real users—in this case, Java programmers—then you shouldn’t add the feature.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

Hell is other people.

— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

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