Installing in someone’s mind the idea that they can achieve anything they want obscures from their consciousness the numerous factors which prevent this from being true.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

Careful function definition, careful specification, and the disciplined exorcism of frills of function and flights of technique all reduce the number of system bugs that have to be found.

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month

…such prose masks an absence of content; being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say…

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

Does good process indeed lead to good product? Truth to tell, we really don’t know.

— Robert L. Glass and Tom DeMarco, Software Creativity 2.0

I don’t know anyone who can predict how multiple technologies will behave in every potential scale condition, especially not when they are combined.

— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire