Accumulating technical debt isn’t necessarily harmful—it can help projects move along faster in the short term—but it should be done as a conscientious observer, not as an unaware boiling frog.

— Gabriel Weinberg, Lauren McCann, Super Thinking

Like many kids, I think, to some degree programming was a refuge from aspects of life that I couldn’t handle.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

…the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.

— James Clear, Atomic Habits

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

— Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

Have you involved the project teams in contributing ideas and developing solutions? If you do all this stuff and then hand it to them and expect them to implement it, you’re working at them, not with them. And when you work at people, they have a natural tendency to push back. They’re the folks who have done all the research into the problems they’re working on, so they will have a lot to contribute.

— Janice Fraser, Jason Fraser, and Eric Ries, Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama