Remember that the original programmers who coded in binary were very afraid that Grace Hopper’s A0 compiler, as horribly primitive as it was, was going to replace them. And, in fact, the opposite happened. As the tooling got better, the higher the demand grew for more and more programmers.

— Robert C. Martin, We, Programmers

Learning the syntax and semantics of a programming language is essential, but it’s only the first step in learning how to program in that language.

— V. Anton Spraul, Think Like a Programmer

…people in my line of work always say that we want to promote “critical thinking”—but really we want our students to think critically only about what they’ve learned at home and in church, not about what they learn from us.

— Alan Jacobs, How to Think

Very often, and even most often, choice is utterly and stubbornly opposed to reason. And do you know that that too is profitable? Sometimes even praiseworthy.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

When you combine self-interest and sociality with impartiality—the interchangeability of perspectives—you get the core of morality.

— Steven Pinker, Rationality