Organizations that have random or casual methods of acquiring software tools waste about 50 percent of all the money they spend on tools.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

The concept of a “minimum viable product” isn’t the minimum product that compiles. It’s the least product that is the best tool in the world for some particular task or workflow.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria

In the new view, human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their constitutional ignorance of the misuse.

— Robert Wright, The Moral Animal

…in most circumstances, if you bring together a crowd of people, that crowd will, as a group, behave less intelligently, and less creatively, than any single member of the crowd is likely to do if on their own.

— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules

A solution that involves a eureka moment is generally very difficult, if not impossible, to derive systematically through a computation because it requires reasoning on a subtle level about objects and their properties.

— Martin Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm