Self-determinism is a rather subtle concept. It means that one determines one’s own path independently of general laws of causality, where “independence” describes a situation in which one is constrained by, but also free to exploit at will, the laws of physics and biology.

— Christopher Michael Langan, The Art of Knowing

…we are brought to appreciate the utterly non-obvious fact that our mind holds pleasure and displeasure as the main currency of our psychological transactions.

— Roman Gelperin, Addiction, Procrastination, and Laziness

The rules of software are the same today as they were in 1946, when Alan Turing wrote the very first code that would execute in an electronic computer.

— Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

…just because jQuery did it correctly doesn’t mean other libraries do, especially in the Node.js world, where bad libraries are being created at an astonishing rate.

— Jonathan E. Steinhart, The Secret Life of Programs

…cultures are not conspiracies concocted by some people in order to take advantage of others (as Marxists tend to think). Rather, cultures are mental parasites that emerge accidentally, and thereafter take advantage of all people infected by them.

— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens