A nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in.

— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

We should always be thinking of the simplest route to success, not the coolest, not the one with the most tech that we can add to our CVs or résumés.

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering

One escapes into reminiscence as one escapes into gin or sodium amytal.

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

…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