To every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

— David Komlos and David Benjamin, Cracking Complexity

Intuition, for one thing, is an elastic faculty: our children will probably have no difficulty in accepting as intuitively obvious the paradoxes of relativity, just as we do not boggle at ideas that were regarded as wholly unintuitive a couple of generations ago. Moreover, as we all know, intuition is not a safe guide: it cannot properly be used as a criterion of either truth or fruitfulness in scientific explorations.

— Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel’s Proof

Nothing much new has happened in computers that you couldn’t have predicted. The last significant thing, I think, was the Internet, and that was certainly in place in ‘99. Everything has expanded—the speed of individual computers is still expanding exponentially, but what’s different?

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

…good DevOps technical practices predict job satisfaction.

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

What is clearly happening inside this glass capsule is happening less clearly at a great scale on Earth in the closing years of this millennium. The realm of the born—all that is nature—and the realm of the made—all that is humanly constructed—are becoming one. Machines are becoming biological and the biological is becoming engineered.

— Kevin Kelly, Out of Control