Being an introvert is not an excuse for making no effort to treat people like real human beings, however. The bedrock of strong teams is human connection, which leads to trust.

— Camille Fournier, The Manager’s Path

…principles for dealing with algorithmic problems are based a lot more directly on 5,000 or10,000 years’ worth of history in mathematics. How we go about programming now, we don’t have anything like that foundation to build on. Which is one of the reasons why so much software is crap: we don’t really know what we’re doing yet.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

Java programmers tend to use hundreds of lines of code where one would suffice.

— Jonathan E. Steinhart, The Secret Life of Programs

General meetings generally fall into one of three categories: painful, useless, or soul-crushing.

— Sarah Cooper, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings

There is a whole mathematical method surrounding the management of trivariate estimates. If you are interested, I encourage you to research the program evaluation and review technique (PERT).

— Robert C. Martin, Clean Agile