…frameworks can easily get in the way, either by making too many assumptions that constrain domain design choices or by making the implementation so heavyweight that development slows down.

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

It is not an accident that the research behind the Accelerate book found that one of the defining characteristics of high-performing teams, based on measures of stability and throughput, is that they can make decisions within the team, without seeking permission from, or coordination with, other groups. Such teams are informationally decoupled.

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering

One of the simplest and most effective techniques to learn something is to try to teach it.

— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

The detailed blow-by-blow flow chart, however, is an obsolete nuisance, suitable only for initiating beginners into algorithmic thinking.

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month

T. S. Eliot, a great admirer of the work, commented: “How much the work of logicians has done to make of English a language in which it is possible to think clearly and exactly on any subject. The Principia Mathematica are perhaps a greater contribution to our language than they are to mathematics.”

— Chris Bernhardt, Turing’s Vision