The correspondence between reality and my beliefs comes from reality controlling my beliefs, not the other way around.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory

Your priorities are the things you are already doing and don’t need to be reminded to do.

— Brennen Reece, Productivity for the Depressive Polymath

…there was a small but growing body of scientific evidence that happiness wasn’t just the consequence of performing well at work, it might also be an important cause.

— Angela Duckworth, Grit

…three-quarters of the nonviolent resistance movements succeeded, compared with only a third of the violent ones.

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

“The best and brightest people will gravitate toward those corporations that foster personal growth” (Naisbitt and Aburdene 1985). In other words, support for professional development is vital to the health of any corporation—and especially so in the software field.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development