Schrödinger was the first of the quantum theoreticians to express sympathy with the Upanishads and eastern philosophical thought. A growing body of literature now embodies this perspective, including two popular works, The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra and the Dancing Wu Li masters by Gary Zukav.

— Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, The Mind’s I

What I have learned, working here, is that smart, successful people are cursed. The curse is confidence. It’s confidence that comes from a lifetime of success after real success, an objectively great job, working at an objectively great company, making a measurably great salary, building products that get millions of users. You must be smart. In fact, you are smart. You can prove it.

— Avery Pennarun, The Curse of Smart People

If you can’t build a monolith, what makes you think microservices are the answer?

— Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua, Building Evolutionary Architectures

…no logical argument can establish a moral claim. But an argument can establish that a claim under debate is inconsistent with another claim a person holds dear, or with values like life and happiness that most people claim for themselves and would agree are legitimate desires of everyone else.

— Steven Pinker, Rationality

A good programming language should have features that make the kind of people who use the phrase “software engineering” shake their heads disapprovingly.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters