Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

I asked a friend, whose code I admire, if he had any recommendations to demonstrate the importance of cohesion, and he recommended the Sesame Street YouTube video, “One of these things is not like another.”

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering

…one study of large internet services found that configuration errors by operators were the leading cause of outages, whereas hardware faults (servers or network) played a role in only 10–25% of…

— Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications

…as a source of organic order, a master plan is both too precise, and not precise enough. The totality is too precise: the details are not precise enough.

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

“I dropped out of graduate school because postmodernism was then coming into academia,” Craig explained to me, “and it didn’t seem worthwhile to go through all of the hard work of science and present all the evidence, just to have it dismissed by [someone] saying, ‘Well, that’s just your narrative.’”

— Alice Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger