…responsibility for the design of code should rest with the people who are actually working on it.

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity

…programming is such a unique experience that there really is no analogy for it that we can look to for guidance. It’s not engineering, it’s not a craft, it’s not science, and it’s definitely not art.

— David Bryant Copeland, SOLID Is Not Solid

Some people only express their opinions as part of mob shaming, when it is safe to do so, and, in the bargain, think that they are displaying virtue. This is not virtue but vice, a mixture of bullying and cowardice.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

There is no compression algorithm for experience…

— Stephen Orban, Ahead in the Cloud

Yet it is a fact, not entirely lost on management consultants, that some people would rather work twelve hours a day of their own choosing than eight that are prescribed. Provided, of course, that the work is interesting.

— Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine