The value of documentation is only to be realized if the documentation is well done. If it is poorly done, it will be worse than no documentation at … - Gerald M. Weinberg

People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.

Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius.

One typical computing example of social fixation is the adoption of one programming language by an installation. Once the language has been adopted, a new language has more difficulty making an entry, because with most of the people using the old language, advantages accrue to following the beaten path.