There’s two kinds of people in the world, those that do work and those who take credit. Keep in the first group—there’s much less competition there.

— Gerald Weinberg, Donald C. Gause and Sally Cox, Are You Lights On?

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

— Richard P.Feyman, Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings and Albert R. Hibbs, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feyman!”

Taking the time to evaluate which problem to solve is one of the best predictors I’ve found of a team’s long-term performance.

— Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle

…in 1983, the psychologist Lisanne Bainbridge wrote a seminal essay on the hidden dangers of relying too heavily on automated systems. Build a machine to improve human performance, she explained, and it will lead – ironically – to a reduction in human ability.

— Hannah Fry, Hello World

The aim of the deployment pipeline is threefold. First, it makes every part of the process of building, deploying, testing, and releasing software visible to everybody involved, aiding collaboration. Second, it improves feedback so that problems are identified, and so resolved, as early in the process as possible. Finally, it enables teams to deploy and release any version of their software to any environment at will through a fully automated process.

— Jez Humble and David Farley, Continuous Delivery