Wasting programmer time is the true inefficiency, not wasting machine time. This will become ever more clear as computers get faster.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

The introduction of information theory and its applications to thermodynamics has led to the conclusion that entropy, a basic concept of that science, is a measure of the observer’s ignorance of the atomic details of the system.

— Douglas R Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, The Mind’s I

I know of no philosophical theist who does not agree with Ingersoll that the God of the Pentateuch is “a false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain, and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, and changeable, infamous and hideous … .”

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

…targeting your methodology to novices, you will create a poor working environment for the experienced team members, and they’ll simply leave your team and/or organization.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long-outdated belief in old ones.

— Jeffrey Fry, Distilled Thoughts