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“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second series

“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“The challenge and the mission are to find real solutions to real problems on actual schedules with available resources.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“Conway's Law predicts: "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."[1] Conway goes on to point out that the organization chart will initially reflect the first system design, which is almost surely not the right one. If the system design is to be free to change, the organization must be prepared to change.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“Organizations must be designed around the people available; not people fitted into pure-theory organizations.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“Everything is quantified,” he said. “Whether it’s the technology or the way people use it, it has an insidious ability to reduce things to less than human dimensions.”
― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine

“There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking