…if you plan to use a productivity tool, you should add about 25 percent on top of the total time you expect to spend working with the tool for use in working around the tool’s limitations.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

If we used a million computers, each with a billion cores, where each core can compute a quintillion operations a second, it would still take nearly a googol ages of the universe to look through all the possible cliques of fifty people among the 20,000 residents of Frenemy (a googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros). The P versus NP problem still remains relevant in a parallel world.

— Lance Fortnow, The Golden Ticket

No rich man ever succeeds in disguising himself as a poor man; for money, like murder, will out.

— George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Competition between segments of the scientific community is the only historical process that ever actually results in the rejection of one previously accepted theory or in the adoption of another.

— Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Why would people ever think, when thinking deprives them of “the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved”—especially in an online environment where the social approval of one’s attitudes is so much easier to acquire, in the currency of likes, faves, followers, and friends?

— Alan Jacobs, How to Think