If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called “faith.” But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition!

— Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

Fashion changes quickly, Commerce less quickly, Infrastructure slower than that, then Governance, then Culture, and slowest is Nature. The fast parts learn, propose, and absorb shocks; the slow parts remember, integrate, and constrain. The fast parts get all the attention. The slow parts have all the power.

— Stewart Brand, SALT Summaries, Condensed Ideas About Long-Term Thinking

While neural networks run under the direction of software, the creation of neural networks is not programming. Designing and training appropriately scaled neural networks for various applications has about as much to do with programming as it has to do with designing a suspension bridge. It is not a programming activity. Neural networking is a very different kind of engineering.

— Robert C. Martin, We, Programmers

Expecting others to do what you are not willing to try yourself is disrespectful and ineffective.

— Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres, Extreme Programming Explained

Science is magic that works.

— Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle