Theories permit consciousness to ‘jump over its own shadow,’ to leave behind the given, to represent the transcendent, yet, as is self-evident, only in symbols.

— James Gleick, The Information

Dependency is one of the most critical problems in software development. Much legacy code work involves breaking dependencies so that change can be easier.

— Michael Feathers, Working Effective with Legacy Code

I’ve never met anyone who disagreed with the notion that there is too much hype in the software field. But behavior, all too often, clashes with this belief.

— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

…high-performance culture is far more than just the application of tools, the adoption of a set of interrelated practices, copying the behaviors of other successful organizations, or the implementation of a prescribed, expert-designed framework. It is the development, through experimentation and learning guided by evidence, of a new way of working together that is situationally and culturally appropriate to each organization.

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

In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not to appear very sympathetic, but sufficiently weak to be a more-or-less accessible target (since the concentration of power and money are beyond reach). Science fulfills these conditions, and this partly explains the attacks against it.

— Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense