To put it schematically, the claim “Everything is subjective” must be nonsense, for it would itself have to be either subjective or objective. But it can’t be objective, since in that case it would be false if true. And it can’t be subjective, because then it would not rule out any objective claim, including the claim that it is objectively false.

— Thomas Nagel, The Last Word

…keeping the code simple is usually the key to correctness.

— Jon Bentley, Programming Pearls

Gallup research shows that only 13 percent of employees worldwide are actively engaged at work, and more than twice that number are so disengaged they are likely to spread negativity to others.

— Jim Whitehurst and Gary Hamel, The Open Organization

Since people define themselves—in part at least—by what they do professionally, changing what they do gets deep into the matter of personal definition.

— Tom DeMarco, Slack

The trick in life (and risk management) is to have as much respect for experience before one acquires said experience as one would after.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes