…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

…there’s the feeling that we keep messing it up, that maybe our communication media are such spam-filled, dick-pic-laden, Nazi-promoting cesspools because we’re somehow doing them wrong.

— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking