Knowing things is not the same as understanding them. Comprehension is not the same thing as analysis. Expertise is a not a parlor game played with factoids.

— Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes

The better that you understand the most fundamental level of your field, the easier it will be to learn the next level.

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Understanding Software

Development is always done by people; clients and users are people; and under strict genetic testing most managers can be shown to share at least 50% of their genetic code with homo montipythonus.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

The media, the public relations people, the politicians, and advertisers who regulate much of the public flow of information have far more power than most people realize. They filter and channel information. Often they do so for short-term, self-interested purposes. It’s no wonder our that social systems so often run amok.

— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems