the nature of man is not his internal structure but the network of personal, familial and social interactions within which he exists.

— Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems

…a strong correlation exists between comprehensiveness of testing and ease of implementing an evolutionary architecture.

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

…if you were to claim that everything is subjective, I could ask, “Is that statement subjective?” If it is, then you are free to believe it, but I don’t have to. Or suppose you claim that everything is relative. Is that statement relative? If it is, then it may be true for you right here and now but not for anyone else or after you’ve stopped talking.

— Steven Pinker, Rationality

…hot takes, thought leaders, conference speakers, and book authors all giving their opinions about their experience and trying to generalize those into rules about how to be a good programmer…all without any real evidence other than survivorship bias.

— David Bryant Copeland, SOLID Is Not Solid

Decisions motivated by wanting to avoid rewriting code later are usually bad decisions.

— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire