We know today that political partisanship is like sports fandom: testosterone levels rise or fall on election night just as they do on Super Bowl Sunday.

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

Enforcing a dress code suggests that the work itself, while important, is not of utmost importance. Enforcing strict work hours suggests the same thing.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

A man of genius makes no mistakes, His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery

— James Joyce, Ulysses

Learning is limited by an organization’s ability to keep its people.

— Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister, Peopleware

…perhaps happiness is synchronising one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions.

— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens