If a statement is false, that’s the worst thing you can say about it. You don’t need to say that it’s heretical.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

…because of the dynamic equilibrium of the software development ecosystem, predictability has expired. Enterprise architects may still make plans, but they may be invalidated at any moment.

— Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua, Building Evolutionary Architectures

That’s my gripe with Quality Programs. They focus on one easy and actionable aspect of quality and ignore everything else. They concentrate on something that is almost incidental to real quality and ignore what really matters.

— Tom DeMarco, Slack

…history weighs upon our lives and destinies in proportion to our ignorance of the past.

— Luc Ferry, A Brief History of Thought

…stupidity, real stupidity, is not knowing that you don’t know. Stupid people think they know something when they don’t, or they have no idea that there is something more to know. This sort of stupidity is something that can be found in nearly every field, and software development is no exception.

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Understanding Software