…recent effort to replicate the hundred psychology papers in “prestigious” journals of 2008 found that, out of a hundred, only thirty-nine replicated.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

Software applications are limited mainly by human imagination. Since human creativity is so vast in potential and computer hardware is still evolving by leaps and bounds, it would be foolish to think of software technology as being mature.

— Michael A. Cusmano, The Business of Software

By using simplistic extrinsic motivators to goad performance, managers excuse themselves from harder matters such as investment, direct personal motivation, thoughtful team formation, staff retention, and ongoing analysis and redesign of work procedures.

— Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister, Peopleware

The Greek notion of science held it above vulgar pragmatics, leading to a pedantic tendency that tolerated intellectual laxity, sometimes with tragic consequences.

— Noah Kennedy, The Industrialization of Intelligence

Self-determinism is a rather subtle concept. It means that one determines one’s own path independently of general laws of causality, where “independence” describes a situation in which one is constrained by, but also free to exploit at will, the laws of physics and biology.

— Christopher Michael Langan, The Art of Knowing