A clear argument has to lay out an inferential pathway, starting from what the audience already knows or accepts. If you don’t recurse far enough, you’re just talking to yourself.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality

I like to figure out how things work. And a good test of that is to implement it yourself. To me programming isn’t about typing code into a machine. Programming is about understanding.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

…if one gives sufficient social power to a class of people holding even the most outlandish ideas, they will, consciously or not, eventually contrive to produce a world organized in such a way that living in it will, in a thousand subtle ways, reinforce the impression that those ideas are self-evidently true.

— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules

The manager comes to see all relationships with others by a strict utilitarian calculus and, insofar as he dares, breaks friendships and alliances accordingly.

— Robert Jackall, Moral Mazes

…if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as ‘lines produced’ but as ‘lines spent’…

— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google