“It is pretty well established that there is an overconfidence effect. … You don't have the competence to assess your own competence. … you need competence in order to assess your own competence. … Everyone has the Dunning-Kruger effect.”

“When women take their education and their abilities seriously and put them to use, ultimately they have to compete with men. It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.”

“You shouldn't compete against others. You should compete against yourself.”

“A competency is an underlying characteristic of the person that leads to or causes effective or superior performance.”

“You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.”

“Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.”

“To compete with your reflection, is to have already won long term.”

“Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent”

“The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.”

“When two parties compete, one loses. That's why in ministry, those who have it don't compete with one another; they work to complete one another.”