Moore’s law for silicon is actually the fifth wave of technologies displaying two-year doubling.

For context, Moore’s Law applies to integrated circuits and the four previous technologies are electromechanical, relay, vacuum tube, and transistors.

— Peter J. Denning and Matti Tedre, Computational Thinking

those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.

— F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty

Confidence in truth is perhaps the most important virtue solidified by the quest for truth in mathematics.

— Francis Su, Mathematics for Human Flourishing

The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind’s flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality—without exploiting them for fun and profit.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes

Foucault objects to particular regimes of power not on moral grounds . . . but simply on the grounds that they are regimes as such, and so, from some vague libertarian standpoint, repressive.

— Terry Eagleton, The Illusions of Postmodernism