It did, however, fail to appreciate that scientific and other forms of liberal reasoning (such as arguments in favor of democracy and capitalism) are not so much metanarratives (though they can adopt these) as imperfect but self-correcting processes that apply a productive and actionable form of skepticism to everything, including themselves.

— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories

But I think a big sin in our area, in engineering, is doing stuff just because it’s neat, because it’s good engineering, whatever. If you’re not solving real problems for real users—in this case, Java programmers—then you shouldn’t add the feature.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

Hell is other people.

— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

Research has shown that organizational culture is predictive of technology and organizational performance, is predictive of performance outcomes, and that team dynamics and psychological safety are the most important aspects in understanding team performance…

— Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim, Accelerate

According to Locke, those free from the necessity of work are not a class of people with greater access to happiness, as Aristotle thought, but are instead likely to be morally corrupt, and in fact deprived of the opportunity and ability to rationally create themselves, and are thereby incapable of happiness.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now