A truism of all change initiatives is that people do what they want to do. The key to lasting change is to find problems or opportunities that people are aware of and have a desire to invest in and then help them achieve their goals, offering expertise only as requested and needed. Everything else will fail.

— Robert C. Martin, Clean Agile

All you have to do in order to become an excellent programmer is fully understand what you are doing.

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Understanding Software

History is written not so much by the victors as by the affluent, the sliver of humanity with the leisure and education to write about it.

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

…while the people writing the code are encouraged to think of themselves not so much as workers but as part of a family, the people being sent to drive for Uber, deliver Amazon products, or pick up food for DoorDash are told they are not employees.

— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking

…no one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy