…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

Simplicity is important because it enables locality. Locality in our code is what keeps systems loosely coupled, enabling us to deliver features faster. Teams can quickly and independently develop, test, and deploy value to customers.

— Gene Kim, The Unicorn Project

Each of the postmodern principles and themes has a kernel of truth and points to a problem that needs to be dealt with, but none of these problems are effectively addressed by postmodernism.

— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories

…in the end programming is a craft you have to perfect by plying it.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work