…our ubiquitous quality improvement programs just make real quality improvement harder.

— Tom DeMarco, Slack

In the long-term, companies either learn to explore, or they fade away; this isn’t an ignorable challenge.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer

…if you plan to use a productivity tool, you should add about 25 percent on top of the total time you expect to spend working with the tool for use in working around the tool’s limitations.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

If we used a million computers, each with a billion cores, where each core can compute a quintillion operations a second, it would still take nearly a googol ages of the universe to look through all the possible cliques of fifty people among the 20,000 residents of Frenemy (a googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros). The P versus NP problem still remains relevant in a parallel world.

— Lance Fortnow, The Golden Ticket

No rich man ever succeeds in disguising himself as a poor man; for money, like murder, will out.

— George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying