The point is that all new disciplines suffer through a chaotic but necessary explosion of ideas, notation, and representation. But then the dust settles, cooler heads forge a consensus, and a standard ideology and notation arises. And once that happens, the Tower of Babel is reversed, and communication between practitioners and disciplines increases. And that is when real progress is made.

— Robert C. Martin, We, Programmers

The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.

— James Clear, Atomic Habits

…the best software developers I have worked with wrote good software whatever tools they chose to apply.

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering

The Dalai Lama is conceding that a rational and caring individual is going to have to engage in, or at least support, certain acts of violence, including murder.

— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy

All opinions are subjective, except the ones you explicitly label as objective. If you start a sentence with, “Objectively speaking,” anything you say afterward must be 100 percent correct in every context and all circumstances no matter what your coworker thinks.

— Sarah Cooper, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings