…the way this economy works, if you spend your working life caring for others, you’ll end up so underpaid and so deeply in debt you won’t be able to care for your own family.

— David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

The fact that you are surrounded by chaotic systems is a key reason why adaptability is so important to your success.

— Gabriel Weinberg, Lauren McCann, Super Thinking

Mathematically described models have a great advantage: they can be adapted for computers using well established math techniques. If your model has graphs, use graph theory. If it has equations, use algebra.

— Wladston Ferreira Filho, Computer Science Distilled

Are not the architects a new aristocracy, an intellectual elite, set up to tell the poor dumb implementers what to do?

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month

…an institutional demand—for a fixed-price contract for a specific deliverable. Yet this demand runs head-on into the hard fact, argued in Chapter 3, that it is essentially impossible to specify a complete and accurate set of requirements for any complex system except in iterative interaction with the design process.

— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design