You build your self-discipline when you keep doing something simply because it helps you realize your full potential and not because it will make you look good in the eyes of other people or provide you with rewards.

— Martin Meadows, Daily Self-Discipline

Best projects do not necessarily have state-of-the-art methodologies or extensive automation and tooling. They do rely on basic principles such as strong team work, project communication, and project controls. Good organization and management appears to be far more of a critical success factor than technology

— Bill Hetzel, Making Software Measurement Work

Much of perception is based on prediction and prediction is based on context and past experience, so much so that current, real-time input takes a backseat.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

Every three years there’ll be another buzz word as to something that’s going to solve all these problems and make it really work. Extreme programming was one the last two or three years. Before that there was something else. Somebody will come up with another supposedly silver bullet and there’ll be a lot of people jumping on that bandwagon and then they’ll find, “Oh, it’s still hard.”

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

…endian—based on the royal edicts in Lilliput and Blefuscu in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels regarding which was the proper end on which to crack open a soft-boiled egg—…

— Jonathan E. Steinhart, The Secret Life of Programs