Loss of group-centred belief renders life chaotic, miserable, intolerable; presence of group-centred belief makes conflict with other groups inevitable. In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaningless, and that is no improvement at all.

— Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge (Forward), Ethan Van Sciver (Illustrator), 12 Rules for Life

If you have a problem and believe that your title is the only thing holding you back, I want to reassure you that focusing on developing your approach and skills will be far more impactful than the title.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer

…we can now be sure that the egg came first. This is because reproductive mutations separating a new species from its progenitor generally occur in reproductive rather than somatic DNA and are thus expressed in differences between successive generations, but not in the parent organisms themselves.

— Christopher Michael Langan and Chris Langan, The Art of Knowing

It borders on the impossible to write a program of any real complexity in C and not have a security problem.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

In examining the tasks of software development versus software maintenance, most of the tasks are the same—except for the additional maintenance task of “understanding the existing product.” This task consumes roughly 30 percent of the total maintenance time and is the dominant maintenance activity. Thus it is possible to claim that maintenance is a more difficult task than development.

— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering