Is software development really hard, or are software developers not that good at it? Certainly there are parts of software that are hard, but software developers seem to do everything in their power to make even the easy parts harder by wasting an inordinate amount of time on reinvention and inefficient approaches.

— Adam Barr, The Problem With Software

We believe that leadership goes beyond inventing things, making money, and dreaming up world-altering ideas. Leadership is stepping forward and taking responsibility and doing so knowing that your choices will be highly visible to others.

— Janice Fraser, Jason Fraser, and Eric Ries, Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama

Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.

— James Clear, Atomic Habits

The proceedings in the courts of law are generally a mystery to the lower officials as well; therefore they can almost never follow the progress of the cases they are working on throughout their course; the case enters their field of vision, often they know not whence, and continues on, they know not where. The lessons to be learned from the study of the individual stages of a trial, the final verdict and its basis, are lost to these officials. Their involvement is limited to that part of the trial circumscribed for them by the Law, and they generally know less about what follows, and thus about the results of their own efforts, than the defense, which as a rule remains in contact with the accused almost to the very end of the trial.

— Franz Kafka, The Trial

To every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

— David Komlos and David Benjamin, Cracking Complexity