However ardently I, or all mankind, may desire something, however necessary it may be to human happiness, that is no ground for supposing this something to exist.

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

Just be sure that the programmers working on a story are not also writing the acceptance tests for that story.

— Robert C. Martin, Clean Agile

This idea — that the bottom level, though 100 percent responsible for what is happening, is nonetheless irrelevant to what happens — sounds almost paradoxical, and yet it is an everyday truism.

— Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

If we could understand the reason for suffering, God would no longer be hidden. And only if God remains concealed, remains a deus abscondus, can faith escape contamination by coercion.

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

It’s rare to see a major problem caused by lack of skill. It’s nearly always attitude, and attitudes are hard to change.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development