A common misconception about bitcoin transactions is that they must be “confirmed” by waiting 10 minutes for a new block, or up to 60 minutes for a full six confirmations. Although confirmations ensure the transaction has been accepted by the whole network, such a delay is unnecessary for small-value items such as a cup of coffee. A merchant may accept a valid small-value transaction with no confirmations, with no more risk than a credit card payment made without an ID or a signature, as merchants routinely accept today.

— Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin

…it is often necessary for the software requirements gathering process to be (a) iterative (it is difficult to be sure at first glance which requirements are relevant to the software), and (b) interactive (software requirements gatherers must interact with requirements gatherers from other disciplines to divide up the requirements properly).

— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

…man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism

In the absence of contrary evidence, if a belief satisfies a human desire, that too is a practical consequence and therefore a legitimate basis for calling certain beliefs true.

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding.

— TimKreider, We Learn Nothing