Working overtime is not a way to show your dedication to your employer. What it shows is that you are a bad planner, that you agree to deadlines to which you shouldn’t agree, that you make promises you shouldn’t make, that you are a manipulable laborer and not a professional.

— Robert C. Martin, Clean Agile

Since ongoing Russian terror is the price Ukrainians pay for their courage, it is outright perverse for us to use it in the satisfaction of our own psychological needs.

— Maurits de Jongh, Hannah Arendt: On the Spectre of Nuclear War

The findings from the “State of DevOps” report say that one of the leading predictors of high performance, measured in terms of throughput and stability, is the ability of teams to make their own decisions without the need to ask permission of anyone outside the team.

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering

Formal proof of correctness is usually infeasible; abandoning all effort at systematic verification (the more common extreme) is dangerous…

— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design

“No,” said the priest, “you don’t have to consider everything true, you just have to consider it necessary.” “A depressing opinion,” said K. “Lies are made into a universal system.”

— Franz Kafka, The Trial