…rather than spending tons of time trying to analyze which will work and which will not, we allow many small experiments. Those that gain momentum continue to grow, while those that don’t are allowed to wither away.

— Jim Whitehurst and Gary Hamel, The Open Organization

To create content is to be distracted. To create the “platform” is to focus on the true structure of reality. Shaping media is better than shaping the content of such media. It is the person who makes the “platform” who becomes a billionaire. The person who provides the content—be it reviews on Yelp, self-published books on Amazon, your own car and waking hours through Uber—is a rube distracted by a glittering but pointless object.

— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking

Some schedule-oriented development practices that are perfectly acceptable when only time is at stake would be unconscionably reckless when human life is at stake.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

It is often remarked that nothing we do now will matter in a million years. But if that is true, then by the same token, nothing that will be the case in a million years matters now. In particular, it does not matter now that in million years nothing we do now will matter.

— Thomas Nagel, Mortal Questions

Prematurely decomposing a system into microservices can be costly, especially if you are new to the domain. In many ways, having an existing codebase you want to decompose into microservices is much easier than trying to go to microservices from the beginning.

— Sam Newman, Building Microservices