…we are all cyborgs, defined as hybrids of man and machine. Examples such as using watches to tell the time, wearing glasses to correct vision, or using a pacemaker, by definition make us cyborgs.

— Donna Harraway, A Cyborg Manifesto

Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communicate information. Writing the report is important; reading it often is not.

— Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management

The same talents or personality that make a person an excellent amateur programmer may make him singularly unsuited for being a professional one; but the lack of ability to adjust his working behavior to the problem at hand will always make him unsuited.

— Gerald Weinberg, The Pschcology of Computer Programming

…the idea of digital transformation with a beginning, a middle, and an end is bullshit.

— Stephen Orban, Ahead in the Cloud

Software engineering is gravely hampered today by immature practices. Specific problems include: – The prevalence of fads more typical of a fashion industry than of an engineering discipline – The lack of a sound, widely accepted theoretical basis – The huge number of methods and method variants, with differences little understood and artificially magnified – The lack of credible experimental evaluation and validation – The split between industry practice and academic research.

— Adam Barr, The Problem with Software