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

Thoreau provides us with a kind of comforting perspective on loneliness, by pointing out that no matter how hard we try there will always be a chasm of consciousness between me and another person.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now