Don’t believe anyone who tells you that ditching your monolith is the solution to all your problems. Monoliths can and do scale. Sometimes they are more expensive to scale, but the notion that it is impossible to scale monoliths is false.

— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire

Several eminent climate scientists, having crunched the numbers, warn that “there is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power.”

— Steven Pinker, Rationality

What will make or break your career, especially at a company like Google, is how well you collaborate with others.

— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google

…the quality of an architect’s decisions degrade the further they get from doing real work on real code in the real process.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer

To transform a nonlearning organization into one that at least can learn requires two simple changes:

1. Drive internal competition out of the organization to enable cooperation, collaboration, and joint ownership among managers.
2. Take time for the practice stages of training by allowing people to exercise their new skills at a much slower-than-expert rate.

— Tom DeMarco, Slack