Good programming is not born from mere technical competence. I’ve seen highly intellectual programmers who can produce intense and impressive algorithms, who know their language standard by heart, but who write the most awful code.

— Kevlin Henney, 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

The artist worthy of the name is one who cultivates a ‘hatred of sentiment, of sensibility, of finer feelings, a hatred for what is inconstant, changeable, vague, superstitious…

— Luc Ferry, A Brief History of Thought

The evidence is clear and overwhelming that both the detection of deception and often its propagation have been major forces favoring the evolution of intelligence.

— Robert Trivers, The Folly of Fools

…nothing is more dangerous than an idea, especially if you feel it’s the only idea you have.

— Gerald M. Weinberg, Fiona Charles, Keats Kirsch, Dani Weinberg, and Earl Everett, Weinberg on Writing

In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

— Haim Shapira, Eight Lessons on Infinity