Economists examining US and Canadian samples have found that attractive individuals get paid an average of 12–14 percent more than their unattractive coworkers…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind

Can I, by sufficient thought alone, design a complex object correctly? No; testing and iteration are in practice necessary. But careful thought helps.

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Design of Design

We can get good designs by following good practices instead of poor ones. Good design practices can be taught. Programmers are among the most intelligent part of the population, so they can learn good practice. Thus a major thrust in the United States is to promulgate good modern practice. New curricula, new literature, new organizations such as the Software Engineering Institute, all have come into being in order to raise the level of our practice from poor to good.

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month

Statistics work by eliminating context. Their search for insight begins with the annihilation of meaning.

— Ben Orlin, Math With Bad Drawings

Very successful companies have never struck me as particularly busy; in fact, they are, as a group, rather laid-back. Energy is evident in the workplace, but it’s not the energy tinged with fear that comes from being slightly behind on everything.

— Tom DeMarco, Slack