Once an administrator rises to a certain level, nobody ever points out to him again the beauty of a simple declarative sentence, or shows him how his writing has become swollen with pompous generalizations.

— William Zinsser, On Writing Well

Here’s a tough-love life lesson: just because you set your mind to something doesn’t mean you can do it.

— Ben Orlin, Math With Bad Drawings

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