The right culture also unlocks internal talent, because you don’t add innovation to a company—you get out of its way. An executive once told me “We can’t copy Netflix because we don’t have the people.” My response was “Where do you think they used to work? We hired them from you and got out of their way…”

— Stephen Orban, Ahead in the Cloud

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

For a long time my perspective has been that being able to write code, in our current time, puts you in one of the best positions in the history of humanity, in terms of job security and trajectory, and that seemed like enough for me.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer

An aspect of programming that you seem to keep running up against is that while we are unbound by physical constraints we get tied down by accidents of history.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

If we refrain from questioning the status quo, it is – aside from the weather and the size of our cities – primarily because we associate what is popular with what is right.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy