It is more important to reduce the effort of maintenance than it is to reduce the effort of implementation.

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity

Programmers may spend a long day up to their elbows in source code, but at some point they get to go home and forget about it. System administrators never quite leave the job behind…

— Hackers & Painters, Paul Graham

The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or she spends, but the days. The twelve-hour days don’t accomplish any more than the eight-hour days.

— Tom DeMarco, Slack

Because of the importance of category systems in a social group, it is not the outsider with a “better” system who becomes king, but the insider who most thoroughly masters the internal system.

— Gerald Weinberg, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

In the absence of any other information about two seemingly well-meaning individuals, differences as subtle as accents can impact a willingness to learn.

— David DeSteno, The Truth About Trust