The human tendency to gather and interpret new information in a biased way to confirm preexisting beliefs is called confirmation bias.

— Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann, Super Thinking

Managing complexity is the most important technical topic in software development. In my view, it’s so important that Software’s Primary Technical Imperative has to be managing complexity.

— Steve McConnell, Code Complete

Good process is as lightweight as possible, while being rigorous enough to consistently work.

— Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle

One way for smart people to be happy is to express themselves, to put out in the world the vast melange of thoughts and feelings whirling in their heads.

— Gerald M. Weinberg, Fiona Charles, Keats Kirsch, Dani Weinberg and Earl Everett, Weinberg on Writing

Deep understanding of causality sometimes requires the understanding of very large patterns and their abstract relationships and interactions, not just the understanding of microscopic objects interacting in microscopic time intervals.

— Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop