Why does Microsoft exist? And why do I exist in this new role? These are questions everyone in every organization should ask themselves.

— Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh

…philosopher Julian Baggini wrote that “‘I’ is a verb masquerading as a noun.”

— Grayson Perry, The Decent of Man

You build your self-discipline when you keep doing something simply because it helps you realize your full potential and not because it will make you look good in the eyes of other people or provide you with rewards.

— Martin Meadows, Daily Self-Discipline

Best projects do not necessarily have state-of-the-art methodologies or extensive automation and tooling. They do rely on basic principles such as strong team work, project communication, and project controls. Good organization and management appears to be far more of a critical success factor than technology

— Bill Hetzel, Making Software Measurement Work

Much of perception is based on prediction and prediction is based on context and past experience, so much so that current, real-time input takes a backseat.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning