If we are to ensure that the proper talents are available when needed, we shall have to classify the work that programmers do into somewhat more refined categories than the simple term “programming” covers.

— Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming

Nowadays, however, economic class is barely mentioned unless combined “intersectionally” with some other form of marginalized identity. It is therefore no surprise that many working-class and poor people often feel profoundly alienated from today’s left—Marxists rightly identify it as having adopted very bourgeois concerns.

— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories

A lot of the downside of frameworks can be avoided by applying them selectively to solve difficult problems without looking for a one-size-fits-all solution.

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

There is really only one way to implement locks, but there are many ways to present them to programs.

— Jonathan E. Steinhart, The Secret Life of Programs

Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.

— Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt,The Haystack Syndrome