The idea that everyone should own all the code, I don’t think is really practical because there’s going to be too much of it. People are going to have to specialize; you need an expert sometimes.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

One must never forget that the most implacable wars are never the wars about things; they’re the wars about the nonsense that eloquent idealists have talked about things—in other words, the religious wars. What’s lemonade? Something you make out of lemons. And what’s a crusade? Something you make out of crosses—a course of gratuitous violence motivated by an obsession with unanalyzed symbols.

— Aldous Huxley, Huxley trusts and heirs, The Genius and the Goddess

Dostoevsky, the only psychologist from whom I’ve anything to learn… he ranks amongst the most beautiful strokes of fortune in my life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

While the system is little the architect makes sure the system has just the right little architecture. As the system grows, the architect makes sure the architecture keeps pace.

— Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres, Extreme Programming Explained

All the labor-saving machinery that has hitherto been invented has not lessened the toil of a single human being.

— John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy