Whether it is right or wrong is purely accidental. Although it is possible that any particular belief can be true, it is not, from an evolutionary perspective, necessary that any beliefs be true.

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

The mistake is that…it’s not just a logical deduction, but, so to speak, a deduction that has turned into a feeling. Not all natures are the same; for many, a logical deduction sometimes turns into the strongest feeling, which takes over their whole being, and which it is very difficult to drive out or alter. To cure such a person, it’s necessary in that case to change the feeling itself, which can be done only by replacing it with another equally strong. That is always difficult, and in many cases, impossible.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent

Complexity isn’t caused by a single catastrophic error; it accumulates in lots of small chunks.

— John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design

…the more you reduce coupling for one class of changes, the greater the coupling becomes for other classes of changes.

— Kent Beck, Tidy First?

The next generation of AI will be trained on code written by humans who learned to program by copying AI.

— Krzyś, The Junior Developer Extinction