…three critical differences between programming and software engineering: time, scale, and the trade-offs at play.

— Titus Winters, Tom Manschreck and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google

We have repeatedly seen how analogies and mappings give rise to secondary meanings that ride on the backs of primary meanings. We have seen that even primary meanings depend on unspoken mappings, and so in the end, we have seen that all meaning is mapping-mediated, which is to say, all meaning comes from analogies.

— Douglas R. Hofstadter, I am a Strange Loop

Essentially ail psychological tests—certainly including all the personality tests—assume that the psychologists who made the tests are smarter than the people who take them.

— Gerald Weinberg, The Phychology of Computer Programming

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously wrote: “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

— Martin Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm

“Zeigarnik effect.” This effect states that our brains can better remember and retain things that are unfinished or incomplete.

— Jonathan A. Levi, The Only Skill That Matters