…the standard to compare your software to is what it could be, not what your current competitors happen to have.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

Strategy is that which enables alignment between vision and execution.

— Moe Abdula, Ingo Averdunk, Roland Barcia, Kyle Brown, Ndu Emuchay, The Cloud Adoption Playbook

The only way you get good at using a debugger is by spending a lot of time debugging. Spending a lot of time debugging implies that there are always a lot of bugs.

— Robert C. Martin, Clean Agile

Language choice is, in many respects, intimately tied to the question of code lifespan: languages that tend to be viewed as more focused on developer productivity tend to be more difficult to maintain.

— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google

It’s easy to assume that the person who created today’s broken process was stupid or didn’t have accurate foresight. But in truth, they probably made the best decision they could at the time. (You might have made the same decision then, too!) If you’re not careful, your innovative solution today can become tomorrow’s bureaucratic nightmare.

— Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai, Hack Your Bureaucracy