…academia has remained inactive and complacent. Not only has research in languages and design methodology lost its glamour and attractivity, but worse, the tools common in industry have quietly been adopted without debate and criticism. Current languages may be inevitable in industry, but for teaching, for an orderly, structured, systematic, well-founded introduction they are entirely mistaken and obsolete.

— Adam Barr, The Problem with Software

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Commercial OSes have to adopt the same official stance toward errors as Communist countries had toward poverty. For doctrinal reasons it was not possible to admit that poverty was a serious problem in Communist countries, because the whole point of Communism was to eradicate poverty.

— Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning…was the Command Line

With microservice architecture, an application can easily be scaled both horizontally and vertically, developer productivity and velocity increase dramatically, and old technologies can easily be swapped out for the newest ones.

— Susan J. Fowler Production-Ready Microservices

Cisco Systems estimates that approximately 12.1 billion Internet connected devices were in use in April 2014, and the figure is expected to zoom to above 50 billion by 2020.

— Samuel Greengard, The Internet of Things