The mistake is that…it’s not just a logical deduction, but, so to speak, a deduction that has turned into a feeling. Not all natures are the same; for many, a logical deduction sometimes turns into the strongest feeling, which takes over their whole being, and which it is very difficult to drive out or alter. To cure such a person, it’s necessary in that case to change the feeling itself, which can be done only by replacing it with another equally strong. That is always difficult, and in many cases, impossible.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent

Complexity isn’t caused by a single catastrophic error; it accumulates in lots of small chunks.

— John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design

…the more you reduce coupling for one class of changes, the greater the coupling becomes for other classes of changes.

— Kent Beck, Tidy First?

The next generation of AI will be trained on code written by humans who learned to program by copying AI.

— Krzyś, The Junior Developer Extinction

philosophers should not see their lives of reason as valuable because they are an example how others should behave. Instead, philosophers should see their value as psychologists might see theirs: as specialized at doing something that most people have little interest in or ability to do

— Kevin Currie-Knight, Humans, the Believing Animals