Armies of programmers with rudimentary skills can produce certain kinds of software, but not the kind that saves a company in its eleventh hour.

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

Jeremy Bentham said the purpose of laws is to produce the best consequences for the greatest number of people.

— Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. . .

The point is that all new disciplines suffer through a chaotic but necessary explosion of ideas, notation, and representation. But then the dust settles, cooler heads forge a consensus, and a standard ideology and notation arises. And once that happens, the Tower of Babel is reversed, and communication between practitioners and disciplines increases. And that is when real progress is made.

— Robert C. Martin, We, Programmers

The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.

— James Clear, Atomic Habits

…the best software developers I have worked with wrote good software whatever tools they chose to apply.

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering