Further investigation of self-organizing systems reveals that the divine creator, if there is one, does not have to produce evolutionary miracles. He, she, or it just has to write marvelously clever rules for self-organization.

— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems

…three factors you can look at to determine if a technology is “bad” before you even start using it: survival potential, interoperability, and attention to quality.

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity

…the software industry has gotten in the habit of abandoning old silver bullets once they get tarnished. It’s a binary view of the world: a programming technique is either going to solve every problem or it’s useless.

— Adam Barr, The Problem With Software

no one is ever convinced by logic of anything important

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

…in order not to suffer, or at least not to suffer so much, one must become comfortable with impermanence.

— Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh