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

What might be questioned, however, is whether the sort of truths the sciences provide are the truths we most fundamentally seek.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

…unspoken rule of the game we’re all playing: in our information economy, if you can’t learn quickly and effectively, you’re going to get left behind.

— Jonathan A. Levi, The Only Skill That Matters