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

To put it schematically, the claim “Everything is subjective” must be nonsense, for it would itself have to be either subjective or objective. But it can’t be objective, since in that case it would be false if true. And it can’t be subjective, because then it would not rule out any objective claim, including the claim that it is objectively false.

— Thomas Nagel, The Last Word

…keeping the code simple is usually the key to correctness.

— Jon Bentley, Programming Pearls

Gallup research shows that only 13 percent of employees worldwide are actively engaged at work, and more than twice that number are so disengaged they are likely to spread negativity to others.

— Jim Whitehurst and Gary Hamel, The Open Organization