Risks such as unstable requirements or illdefined interfaces can be magnified when you bring a contractor into the picture.

— Rapid Development, Steve McConnell

…programming is a diverse activity, and any test that gives a single “grade” is hardly adequate to measure the aptitudes required.

— Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming

Stoicism can lead to political quietism – a withdrawal from the sphere of political life, and public life more generally, exclusively into the realm of the individual and personal.

— Philosophy Now, Anja Publications

Choose your battles carefully: to be heard properly, you first need to listen to others.

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

…if you create a bureaucratic structure to deal with some problem, that structure will invariably end up creating other problems that seem as if they, too, can only be solved by bureaucratic means.

— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules