Although the average programming manager would say that intelligence is more important than personality in programming success, very few could cite cases of people who turned out not to be intelligent enough to program, but everyone knows of cases of people who were not temperamentally suited to the programmer’s job.

— Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming

…creativity and control are, to some extent, enemies.

— Robert L. Glass and Tom DeMarco, Software Creativity 2.0

We thus see that the freshest and most delicious foods are eaten by two groups of people: the relatively poor, who have no choice, and the relatively rich, who spend lots of money trying to re-create the food supply networks that the relatively poor have been working with for centuries.

— Tyler Cowen, An Economist Gets Lunch

Changing course based on evidence is the definition of agility. My goal wasn’t to deliver all the slides I’d prepared. My goal was to teach this specific audience the basics of OKRs

— Jeff Gothelf, Forget Agile. The Goal Is Agility.

The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life, in particular, understanding and outmaneuvering objects, animals, plants, and other people.

— Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works