…your potential ability to write good software is limited only by your ability to conceive of helping another.

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity

My impression is that we have seen, for perhaps a hundred and fifty years, a gradual increase in language that is either meaningless or destructive of meaning. And I believe that this increasing unreliability of language parallels the increasing disintegration, over the same period, of persons and communities.

— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Insofar as mathematics is about reality, it is not certain, and insofar as it is certain, it is not about reality. (Albert Einstein)

— Haim Shapira, Eight Lessons on Infinity

It is estimated that approximately 10% of the population is neurodiverse, half of whom are unaware of the fact themselves.

— Andreas Hofer and Adrienn Raczi, Born Different

incremental development can be disconcerting for teams and management who aren’t used to it because it front-loads the stress in a project.

— Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce, Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests