Chance favors the prepared mind.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

The most obvious defensive management ploys are prescriptive Methodologies (“My people are too dumb to build systems without them” ) and technical interference by the manager. Both are doomed to fail in the long run.

— Tom DeMarco and Timothy R. Lister, Peopleware

It’s very clear that for a lot of people the creative process includes an enormous amount of sitting around doing nothing.

— Tom Lutz, Doing Nothing

…the toll from these mass shootings equals about one-tenth of 1 percent of American homicides, a statistical nonevent. (That is, if you could wave a magic wand and end all mass shootings forever, nobody looking at the overall homicide rates would even notice.)

— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy

“Know thyself!” There is nothing that so aids and assists the awakening of omniscience within us as insistent thoughts about one’s own transgressions, errors, mistakes.

— Roman Gelperin, On Rotting Prison Straw