If Stalin is evil, then everything he says should be false. You wouldn’t want to agree with Stalin, would you? Stalin also believed that 2 + 2 = 4. Yet if you defend any statement made by Stalin, even “2 + 2 = 4,” people will see only that you are “agreeing with Stalin”; you must be on his side.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind

We should only let ourselves identify with causes and groups that are actually, y’know, good in a non-comparative sense—never with the mere lesser of two evils.

— Michael Shermer, Joe Carter, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ronald Bailey, and Jason Kuznicki, Brain, Belief, and Politics

…customers found they could do previously impossible things with the app than without, well beyond their expectations. The interesting thing about these examples is that many of them failed important ISO metrics such as portability, speed, efficiency, or reliability. Yet customers ignored those shortcomings and became avid and loyal subscribers to the software developer.

— Peter J. Denning and Matti Tedre, Computational Thinking

To reach excellence, problems need to turn into opportunities for learning and improvement, not just survival.

— Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres, Extreme Programming Explained

A single intense, out-of-context classroom event can only get you started in the right direction, at best.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning