You must be honest about the constraints that are making the challenge difficult, which almost always include people and organizational aspects that are uncomfortable to acknowledge.

— Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle

research suggests that our “gut feelings” are more reliable in many situations than the fruits of conscious reasoning.

— Annaka Harris, Conscious

Higher education is the only product where the consumer tries to get as little out of it as possible. —Arnold Kling, “College Customers vs. Suppliers”

— Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Us

Raphael had not spontaneously come into possession of his talents; he had become great by responding intelligently to a sense of inferiority that would have led lesser men to despair.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

We’ve all looked at the mess we’ve just made and then have chosen to leave it for another day. We’ve all felt the relief of seeing our messy program work and deciding that a working mess is better than nothing. We’ve all said we’d go back and clean it up later. Of course, in those days we didn’t know LeBlanc’s law: Later equals never.

— Robert C. Martin, The Robert C. Martin Clean Code Collection