“Without commerce, advanced social orders can’t evolve, so we’re stuck in the primitive state where every nerd fabricates everything from first principles.”

— Federico Biancuzzi, <Masterminds of Programming

There are two ways to get a rigid design: Make too many assumptions about the future. Write code without enough design.

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity

What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and what won’t be enough tomorrow.

— Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave

Yet physicists have discovered that systems whose component parts have a capacity to act collectively often show recurrent features even though they might seem to have nothing at all in common with one another.

— Philip Ball, Critical Mass

Many Agile adoptions have treated technical practices as secondary compared to the management and team practices that some Agile frameworks emphasize. Our research shows that technical practices play a vital role in achieving these outcomes.

— Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble and Gene Kim, Accelerate