Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes

…violence may well be the only way it is possible for one human being to do something which will have relatively predictable effects on the actions of a person about whom they understand nothing.

— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules

In English we don’t use the word ‘swim’ to describe what a submarine does; but Japanese does use the same word for the movement of humans and submarines through water. That doesn’t tell us anything about oceanography or ship design – just as thought experiments about ‘understanding’ in everyday language use don’t tell us anything useful about cognitive science.

— Michael DeBellis, Arguing With the Chinese Room

High IQ without that aspect of creativity and big-picture thinking does not make a person gifted.

— Andreas Hofer and Adrienn Raczi, Born Different

…we constantly see teams that have chosen the shiniest new architectural pattern rather than the most appropriate one suffer. Part of choosing an architecture lies in understanding where the problem and physical architecture come together.

— Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua, Building Evolutionary Architectures