The lesson that I slowly learned was that you couldn’t be an effective long-term leader until you learn how to follow.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer

For every complex problem, there is an answer that is short, simple, and wrong. –H. L. Mencken…

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love.

— Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Instead of using computation to understand nature, they say, we will eventually accept that everything in nature is computation.

— Peter J. Denning and Matti Tedre, Computational Thinking

…you don’t want to start product development with everything designed up front. Your concept of what the new system will look like will be wrong in some minor ways you can’t possibly foresee.

— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire