Viktor Slavchev

“Parrot like an African Grey. Your job, when sitting the
exam, is not to display learning, your job is to regurgitate
whatever you were told or read in the syllabus. Regardless
of what you think about what you were told, your job is to
repeat it back.The “Dear Evil Tester” Letters
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For multiple choice: don’t think “what is the right answer?”,
instead think “what do they think is the right answer?”

Evil Tester answering "Do you have any tips on taking the {insert
nominated certification board name here}
certification exam?”
― Alan Richardson

“many teams that say they have an estimation problem actually have a negotiation problem. A manager asks for an estimate. The team says, “That will take four days.” The manager makes a counteroffer, “Can you make it two?” This is no longer a discussion about estimates. It’s a negotiation.”
― Elisabeth Hendrickson, Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing

“The first lesson is that errors of prediction are inevitable because the world is unpredictable. The second is that high subjective confidence is not to be trusted as an indicator of accuracy (low confidence could be more informative).”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“The technical definition of heuristic is a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions. The”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow