…committee specification is why large and super-ambitious software systems seem so prone to total disaster.

— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design

If you deliver that faultless and definitive report to your organization, you’ve probably waited too long.

— Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann, Super Thinking

You need to spend evenings, weekends, and holidays educating yourself, therefore you cannot spend your evenings, weekends, and holidays working overtime on your current project.

— Kevlin Henney, 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

By the mid-1960s, the nation’s total R&D expenditures would account for 3 percent of the gross national product, a benchmark that was both a symbol of progress and a goal for other countries.

— Matthew Lyon and Katie Hafner, Where Wizards Stay Up Late

Ecomodernists point out that organic farming, which needs far more land to produce a kilogram of food, is neither green nor sustainable.

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now