…of the risks of establishing a design pattern is that developers assume the pattern is good and try to use it as much as possible.

— John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design

There are people who are atheists in actions, religious in words (most Orthodox and Catholic Christians) and others who are religious in actions, religious in words (Salafi Islamists and suicide bombers)

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

Describing how a process works is valuable for two reasons. It forces you to make sure you know how it works. Then it forces you to take the reader through the same sequence of ideas and deductions that made the process clear to you.

— William Zinsser, On Writing Well

…there is a sense that the pleasurable aspects of one’s calling, such as thinking, were not really what one is being paid for; they were better seen as occasional indulgences one is granted in recognition of one’s real work, which is largely about filling out forms.

— David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

I believe that standard corporate product design processes do indeed work against truly great and innovative design.

— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design