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

The man was Francis Bacon, his Great Idea was the scientific method, and he was the only crackpot in all history to claim that level of benefit to humanity and turn out to be completely right.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind

…responsibility for the design of code should rest with the people who are actually working on it.

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity

…programming is such a unique experience that there really is no analogy for it that we can look to for guidance. It’s not engineering, it’s not a craft, it’s not science, and it’s definitely not art.

— David Bryant Copeland, SOLID Is Not Solid