Josh

“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

“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

“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

“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