If you look at forces that improved products like socks, sweaters, and Twinkies,the engine that drives that system is economics. It’s economics that breaks down for software so that it remains indefinitely in its present primitive stage of evolution.

— Federico Biancuzzi, Masterminds of Programming

If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, “We did it ourselves.”

— Lao Tzu and Darrell D. Lau, Tao Te Ching

It is important to note that the definition doesn’t mandate any specific framework, API, or feature. As long as you are continuously reading data from an unbounded dataset, doing something to it, and emitting output, you are doing stream processing.

— Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, and Todd Palino, Kafka

…historical narratives … are verbal fictions, the contents of which are as much invented as found and the forms of which have more in common with their counterparts in literature than they have with those in the sciences.

— Hayden White, Tropics of Discourse

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

— Blaise Pascal and A. J. Krailsheimer, Pensées