MEANINGFUL TECHNOLOGY CHANGE IN A very large organization is very rarely just about the technology. It’s about people, it’s about leadership, and it’s about creating a culture that encourages safe-to-fail experiments and smart risk taking instead of creating fear among those who are expected to move the organization forward.

— Stephen Orban, Ahead in the Cloud

Any time you do a calculation using a representation of an irrational number, you’re doing an approximate calculation, and you can only get an approximate answer.

— Mark C. Chu-Carroll, Good Math

There are far more sources that promise panaceas then there are voices of reason crying in this wilderness.

— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying

— Michio Kaku, Visions

…class envy doesn’t originate from a truck driver in South Alabama, but from a New York or Washington, D.C., Ivy League–educated IYI (say Paul Krugman or Joseph Stiglitz) with a sense of entitlement, upset some “less smart” persons are much richer.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game