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“Spreadsheet users are productive with a small number of functions because the functions are high-level, task-specific operations that do not have to be built up from lower-level primitives.”

"the blessings of optimism are offered only to individuals who are only mildly biased and who are able to “accentuate the positive” without losing track of reality."

"intuition adds value but only after a disciplined collection of objective information and disciplined scoring of separate traits."

"Your ideas are unique; your code is not. ... The bottom line is that writing software remains an almost entirely manual process in a world of incredible automation, and most of that automation is due to the fruits of our software-writing labors. The very act of writing software one character at a time is the height of hypocrisy."

An easy read and very informative. I would recommend this book to people interested in getting their first dog as well as novice and intermediate trainers looking to improve their understanding of dog psychology.

"Mathematics may be viewed as a production of the human mind limited only by the rules of pure logic."