“It’s the mind- and body-numbing tasks, the tasks that make no use of my particular mental or physical capacities, that require incentive. (That incentive might be as simple as the understanding that somebody’s got to do it and as long as the crappy work is fairly distributed I’m willing to do my part.)”—Yalt
“I have concluded that most ideas equated with ‘positivity’ by the mainstream are cheap abstractions, bankrupt of honesty and meaning.”—Prodigeek
“Basically, crack babies are a myth and poverty is real.”—N. K. Jemisin
“The business world pays a lot of lip service to Hayek’s 1940s ideas about free markets. But when it comes to freedom within the companies they run, they’re stuck a good 50 years earlier, mired in the ideology of Frederick Winslow Taylor and his ‘scientific management’.”—Cory Doctorow
“Until you can build a working general purpose reprogrammable computer out of basic components from radio shack, you are not fit to call yourself a programmer in my presence. This is cwhizard, signing off.”—abachler