…the person who had the most information about the unique situation that was my life, was me; the only one who could consistently make the decisions that were best for me, was also me.

— Roman Gelperin, The Master Mind of the Self-Actualizing Person

…the difficult lesson that you’re only ever as smart as the person you’re speaking with.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

If you have a network of thousands of dependencies underneath your product, you should be prepared for some amount of chaos simply from human error.

— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google

Our civilisation is founded on greed and fear, but in the lives of common men the greed and fear are mysteriously transmuted into something nobler.

— George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

…problem solving style was unique to the individual. Thus, anything that forces a programmer to think in another person’s style reduces that programmer’s ability to solve problems.

— Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming