One of the most important things a programmer can say is “No!” Said at the right time, in the right context, this answer can save your employer massive amounts of money and prevent horrible failures and embarrassments.

— Robert C. Martin, Clean Craftsmanship

Venture capitalists have a list of danger signs to watch out for. Near the top is the company run by techno-weenies who are obsessed with solving interesting technical problems, instead of making users happy.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

…plain talk will not be easily achieved in corporate America. Too much vanity is on the line. Managers at every level are prisoners of the notion that a simple style reflects a simple mind. Actually a simple style is the result of hard work and hard thinking; a muddled style reflects a muddled thinker or a person too arrogant, or too dumb, or too lazy to organize his thoughts.

— William Zinsser, On Writing Well

In a sense humanists still needs gods, so they can argue against them.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

Is it really absolutely necessary for all of them to get together physically, especially when it’s so easy to do virtually? A great deal of research has been done on the science of human connection and concludes that yes, it is necessary; it’s not just our observations that fuel this step.

— David Komlos and David Benjamin, Cracking Complexity