The people who set the schedule, not just the ones who failed to meet it, need to be held accountable.

— Tom DeMarco, Slack

Apple is quoted as saying, “We’re at Level I [on the Capability Maturity Model] and will always be.”

— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design

If you hop on board a train going almost this fast and fire a gun out the window, the fundamental units of length change around, so it looks to you like the bullet is speeding ahead of you, but other people see something different.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind

…they spent hundreds of millions of dollars hiring developers and investing in rolling out Agile. But they did so without realizing their real problem: technical debt in the form of an architecture where developers could not be productive.

— Gene Kim, The Unicorn Project

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton, The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton