In short, there was terrible disorder. It seemed to me, at first glance, that both of them—the gentleman and the lady—were decent people, but reduced by poverty to that humiliating state in which disorder finally overcomes every attempt to struggle with it and even reduces people to the bitter necessity of finding in this disorder, as it increases daily, some bitter and, as it were, vengeful sense of pleasure.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

Organizations that have random or casual methods of acquiring software tools waste about 50 percent of all the money they spend on tools.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

The concept of a “minimum viable product” isn’t the minimum product that compiles. It’s the least product that is the best tool in the world for some particular task or workflow.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria

In the new view, human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their constitutional ignorance of the misuse.

— Robert Wright, The Moral Animal

…in most circumstances, if you bring together a crowd of people, that crowd will, as a group, behave less intelligently, and less creatively, than any single member of the crowd is likely to do if on their own.

— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules