Commercial OSes have to adopt the same official stance toward errors as Communist countries had toward poverty. For doctrinal reasons it was not possible to admit that poverty was a serious problem in Communist countries, because the whole point of Communism was to eradicate poverty.

— Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning…was the Command Line

With microservice architecture, an application can easily be scaled both horizontally and vertically, developer productivity and velocity increase dramatically, and old technologies can easily be swapped out for the newest ones.

— Susan J. Fowler Production-Ready Microservices

Cisco Systems estimates that approximately 12.1 billion Internet connected devices were in use in April 2014, and the figure is expected to zoom to above 50 billion by 2020.

— Samuel Greengard, The Internet of Things

…this passage through Chaos is absolutely necessary, and it can’t be shortcut.

— Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister, Peopleware

…principles for dealing with algorithmic problems are based a lot more directly on 5,000 or 10,000 years’ worth of history in mathematics. How we go about programming now, we don’t have anything like that foundation to build on. Which is one of the reasons why so much software is crap: we don’t really know what we’re doing yet.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work